Out of the net: An agent-based model to study human movements influence on local-scale malaria transmission.

ABSTRACT: Though malaria control initiatives have markedly reduced malaria prevalence in recent decades, global eradication is far from actuality. Recent studies show that environmental and social heterogeneities in low-transmission settings have an increased weight in shaping malaria micro-epidemiology. New integrated and more localized control strategies should be developed and tested. Here we present a set of agent-based models designed to study the influence of local scale human movements on local scale malaria transmission in a typical Amazon environment, where malaria is transmission is low and strongly connected with seasonal riverine flooding. The agent-based simulations show that the overall malaria incidence is essentially not influenced by local scale human movements. In contrast, the loc

SUBMITTER: Pizzitutti F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5839546 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature