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Pareto rules for malaria super-spreaders and super-spreading

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
Source :
Nature Communications, Vol 10, Iss 1, Pp 1-9 (2019)
Publication Year :
2019
Publisher :
Nature Portfolio, 2019.

Abstract

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.

Subjects

Subjects :
Science

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
20411723
Volume :
10
Issue :
1
Database :
Directory of Open Access Journals
Journal :
Nature Communications
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
edsdoj.bfe13f2da0e142c686b81788dd0f06ce
Document Type :
article
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11861-y