Spatial Associations Between Land Use and Infectious Disease: Zika Virus in Colombia.

ABSTRACT: Land use boundaries represent human-physical interfaces where risk of vector-borne disease transmission is elevated. Land development practices, coupled with rural and urban land fragmentation, increases the likelihood that immunologically naïve humans will encounter infectious vectors at land use interfaces. This research consolidated land use classes from the GLC-SHARE dataset; calculated landscape metrics in linear (edge) density, proportion abundance, and patch density; and derived the incidence rate ratios of the Zika virus occurrence in Colombia, South America during 2016. Negative binomial regression was used to evaluate vector-borne disease occurrence counts in relation to Population Density, Average Elevation, Per Capita Gross Domestic Product, and each of three landscape metrics.

SUBMITTER: Weinstein JS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7068401 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature