Pathogeography: leveraging the biogeography of human infectious diseases for global health management.

ABSTRACT: Biogeography is an implicit and fundamental component of almost every dimension of modern biology, from natural selection and speciation to invasive species and biodiversity management. However, biogeography has rarely been integrated into human or veterinary medicine nor routinely leveraged for global health management. Here we review the theory and application of biogeography to the research and management of human infectious diseases, an integration we refer to as 'pathogeography'. Pathogeography represents a promising framework for understanding and decomposing the spatial distributions, diversity patterns and emergence risks of human infectious diseases into interpretable components of dynamic socio-ecological systems. Analytical tools from biogeography are already helping to improve

SUBMITTER: Murray KA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7163494 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature