Local and regional dynamics of chikungunya virus transmission in Colombia: the role of mismatched spatial heterogeneity

Local and regional dynamics of chikungunya virus transmission in Colombia: the role of mismatched spatial heterogeneity

Abstract Background Mathematical models of transmission dynamics are routinely fitted to epidemiological time series, which must inevitably be aggregated at some spatial scale. Weekly case reports of chikungunya have been made available nationally for numerous countries in the Western Hemisphere sin...

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Main Authors: Sean M. Moore, Quirine A. ten Bosch, Amir S. Siraj, K. James Soda, Guido España, Alfonso Campo, Sara Gómez, Daniela Salas, Benoit Raybaud, Edward Wenger, Philip Welkhoff, T. Alex Perkins
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-08-01
Series:BMC Medicine
Subjects:
Aedes aegypti
Aggregation bias
Arbovirus
Chikungunya
Colombia
Epidemic
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12916-018-1127-2

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