Mechanistic movement models to understand epidemic spread.

ABSTRACT: An overlooked aspect of disease ecology is considering how and why animals come into contact with one and other resulting in disease transmission. Mathematical models of disease spread frequently assume mass-action transmission, justified by stating that susceptible and infectious hosts mix readily, and foregoing any detailed description of host movement. Numerous recent studies have recorded, analysed and modelled animal movement. These movement models describe how animals move with respect to resources, conspecifics and previous movement directions and have been used to understand the conditions for the occurrence and the spread of infectious diseases when hosts perform a type of movement. Here, we summarize the effect of the different types of movement on the threshold conditions for di

SUBMITTER: Fofana AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5352813 | biostudies-literature | 2017 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature