Social structure defines spatial transmission of African swine fever in wild boar.

ABSTRACT: The spatial spread of infectious disease is determined by spatial and social processes such as animal space use and family group structure. Yet, the impacts of social processes on spatial spread remain poorly understood and estimates of spatial transmission kernels (STKs) often exclude social structure. Understanding the impacts of social structure on STKs is important for obtaining robust inferences for policy decisions and optimizing response plans. We fit spatially explicit transmission models with different assumptions about contact structure to African swine fever virus surveillance data from eastern Poland from 2014 to 2015 and evaluated how social structure affected inference of STKs and spatial spread. The model with social structure provided better inference of spatial spread, pre

SUBMITTER: Pepin KM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7879769 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature