Cattle transport network predicts endemic and epidemic foot-and-mouth disease risk on farms in Turkey.

ABSTRACT: The structure of contact networks affects the likelihood of disease spread at the population scale and the risk of infection at any given node. Though this has been well characterized for both theoretical and empirical networks for the spread of epidemics on completely susceptible networks, the long-term impact of network structure on risk of infection with an endemic pathogen, where nodes can be infected more than once, has been less well characterized. Here, we analyze detailed records of the transportation of cattle among farms in Turkey to characterize the global and local attributes of the directed-weighted shipments network between 2007-2012. We then study the correlations between network properties and the likelihood of infection with, or exposure to, foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) ov

SUBMITTER: Herrera-Diestra JL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9432692 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature