Complex responses to movement-based disease control: when livestock trading helps.

ABSTRACT: Livestock disease controls are often linked to movements between farms, for example, via quarantine and pre- or post-movement testing. Designing effective controls, therefore, benefits from accurate assessment of herd-to-herd transmission. Household models of human infections make use of R*, the number of groups infected by an initial infected group, which is a metapopulation level analogue of the basic reproduction number R0 that provides a better characterization of disease spread in a metapopulation. However, existing approaches to calculate R* do not account for individual movements between locations which means we lack suitable tools for livestock systems. We address this gap using next-generation matrix approaches to capture movements explicitly and introduce novel tools to calculate

SUBMITTER: Prentice JC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5310727 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature