Pareto rules for malaria super-spreaders and super-spreading

Investigating malaria transmission at three sites in Uganda, the authors identify super-spreaders and show that super-spreading is more prominent at low-intensity transmission, and that seasonality and environmental stochasticity have a greater influence on super-spreading.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Laura Cooper, Su Yun Kang, Donal Bisanzio, Kilama Maxwell, Isabel Rodriguez-Barraquer, Bryan Greenhouse, Chris Drakeley, Emmanuel Arinaitwe, Sarah G. Staedke, Peter W. Gething, Philip Eckhoff, Robert C. Reiner, Simon I. Hay, Grant Dorsey, Moses R. Kamya, Steven W. Lindsay, Bryan T. Grenfell, David L. Smith
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2019-09-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11861-y