Multiple species animal movements: network properties, disease dynamics and the impact of targeted control actions.

ABSTRACT: Infectious diseases in livestock are well-known to infect multiple hosts and persist through a combination of within- and between-host transmission pathways. Uncertainty remains about the epidemic dynamics of diseases being introduced on farms with more than one susceptible host species. Here, we describe multi-host contact networks and elucidate the potential of disease spread through farms with multiple hosts. Four years of between-farm animal movement among all farms of a Brazilian state were described through a static and monthly snapshot of network representations. We developed a stochastic multilevel model to simulate scenarios in which infection was seeded into single host and multi-host farms to quantify disease spread potential, and simulate network-based control actions used to e

SUBMITTER: Cardenas NC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8862288 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature