Accounting for animal movement improves vaccination strategies against wildlife disease in heterogeneous landscapes.

ABSTRACT: Oral baiting is used to deliver vaccines to wildlife to prevent, control, and eliminate infectious diseases. A central challenge is how to spatially distribute baits to maximize encounters by target animal populations, particularly in urban and suburban areas where wildlife such as raccoons (Procyon lotor) are abundant and baits are delivered along roads. Methods from movement ecology that quantify movement and habitat selection could help to optimize baiting strategies by more effectively targeting wildlife populations across space. We developed a spatially explicit, individual-based model of raccoon movement and oral rabies vaccine seroconversion to examine whether and when baiting strategies that match raccoon movement patterns perform better than currently used baiting strategies in an

SUBMITTER: McClure KM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9285612 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature