ArticleEpidemiology and infection2017
Epidemic host community contribution to mosquito-borne disease transmission: Ross River virus.
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- Epidemiological models for predicting Ross River virus in Australia: A systematic review.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2020Pooled it
- The non-human reservoirs of Ross River virus: a systematic review of the evidence.Parasites & vectors · 2018Pooled it
- The Role of Wildlife and Climate Change in the Emergence of One Health-Related Viral Diseases in Australia.Viruses · 2026Review
- Ross River virus transmission, infection, and disease: two and a half decades of research progress-an updated cross-disciplinary review.Clinical microbiology reviews · 2026Review
- Development of a Rapid Surveillance System for Ross River Virus in Mosquitoes Through Reverse-Transcription Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification (RT-LAMP).Transboundary and emerging diseases · 2025Article
- Testing the intrinsic mechanisms driving the dynamics of Ross River Virus across Australia.PLoS pathogens · 2024Article
- Epidemiological Study of Multiple Zoonotic Mosquito-Borne Alphaviruses in Horses in Queensland, Australia (2018-2020).Viruses · 2022Article
- Zoonotic and reverse zoonotic transmission of viruses between humans and pigs.APMIS : acta pathologica, microbiologica, et immunologica Scandinavica · 2021Review
- Physiology and ecology combine to determine host and vector importance for Ross River virus.eLife · 2021Article
- Ross River Virus Infection: A Cross-Disciplinary Review with a Veterinary Perspective.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
- Optimising predictive modelling of Ross River virus using meteorological variables.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2021Article
- Spatial and temporal patterns of Ross River virus in south east Queensland, Australia: identification of hot spots at the rural-urban interface.BMC infectious diseases · 2020Article
- Ross River Virus Provokes Differentially Expressed MicroRNA and RNA Interference Responses inViruses · 2020Article
- High Rate of Non-Human Feeding byViruses · 2020Article
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- Arthritogenic Alphaviruses: A Worldwide Emerging Threat?Microorganisms · 2019Review
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- The ecology and epidemiology of Ross River and Murray Valley encephalitis viruses in Western Australia: examples of One Health in Action.Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene · 2017Article
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Abstract
Most vector-borne diseases infect multiple host species, but disentangling the relative importance of different host species to transmission can be complex. Here we study how host species' abundance and competence (duration and titre of parasitaemia) influence host importance during epidemic scenarios. We evaluate this theory using Ross River virus (RRV, family Togaviridae, genus Alphavirus), a multi-host mosquito-borne disease with significant human health impacts across Australia and Papua New Guinea. We used host contribution models to find the importance of key hosts (possums, wallabies, kangaroos, horses, humans) in typical mammal communities around five Australian epidemic centres. We found humans and possums contributed most to epidemic RRV transmission, owing to their high abundances, generally followed by macropods. This supports humans as spillover hosts, and that human-mosquito and possum-mosquito transmission is predominant during epidemics. Sensitivity analyses indicate these findings to be robust across epidemic centres. We emphasize the importance of considering abundance and competence in identifying key hosts (during epidemics in this case), and that competence alone is inadequate. Knowledge of host importance in disease transmission may help to equip health agencies to bring about greater effectiveness of disease mitigation strategies.
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