Infections on the move: how transient phases of host movement influence disease spread.

ABSTRACT: Animal movement impacts the spread of human and wildlife diseases, and there is significant interest in understanding the role of migrations, biological invasions and other wildlife movements in spatial infection dynamics. However, the influence of processes acting on infections during transient phases of host movement is poorly understood. We propose a conceptual framework that explicitly considers infection dynamics during transient phases of host movement to better predict infection spread through spatial host networks. Accounting for host transient movement captures key processes that occur while hosts move between locations, which together determine the rate at which hosts spread infections through networks. We review theoretical and empirical studies of host movement and infection sp

SUBMITTER: Daversa DR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5745403 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature