Environmental limits of Rift Valley fever revealed using ecoepidemiological mechanistic models

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 115, Issue 31, 2018, Pages E7448-E7456

  Iacono, Giovanni Lo ^a,b,c   Cunningham, Andrew A ^d   Bett, Bernard ^e   Grace, Delia ^e   Redding, David W ^f   Wood, James L N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^d INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^e INTERNATIONAL LIVESTOCK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^f UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cross species transmission; Floquet analysis; Stability analysis; Vector borne diseases; Zoonosis

Indexed keywords

AEDES; ARTICLE; CASE STUDY; COMPARTMENT MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULEX; ECOEPIDEMIOLOGICAL MODEL; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; KENYA; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; POPULATION SIZE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIFT VALLEY FEVER; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WATER AVAILABILITY; ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENT; HUMAN; MOSQUITO VECTOR; SEASON; TEMPERATURE; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRANSMISSION; VIROLOGY;

AEDES; ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENT; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOSQUITO VECTORS; RIFT VALLEY FEVER; SEASONS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 85051695048     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1803264115     Document Type: Article

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