Heterogeneity, mixing, and the spatial scales of mosquito-borne pathogen transmission.

The Ross-Macdonald model has dominated theory for mosquito-borne pathogen transmission dynamics and control for over a century. The model, like many other basic population models, makes the mathematically convenient assumption that populations are well mixed; i.e., that each mosquito is equally like...

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Main Authors: T Alex Perkins, Thomas W Scott, Arnaud Le Menach, David L Smith
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/24348223/?tool=EBI