Evidence map›Paper›PMID 29683427›Full record

ArticleeLife2018

Ecological multiplex interactions determine the role of species for parasite spread amplification.

Massimo Stella, Sanja Selakovic, Alberto Antonioni, Cecilia S Andreazzi

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Article in eLife, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Massimo StellaInstitute for Complex Systems Simulation, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1810-9699
Sanja SelakovicFaculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands.
Alberto AntonioniDepartment of Economics, University College London, London, United Kingdom.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5788-3348
Cecilia S AndreazziFiocruz Mata Atlântica, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9817-0635

Funding

Swiss National Science Foundation P2LAP1-161864Swiss National Science Foundation P300P1-171537
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Despite their potential interplay, multiple routes of many disease transmissions are often investigated separately. As a unifying framework for understanding parasite spread through interdependent transmission paths, we present the 'ecomultiplex' model, where the multiple transmission paths among a diverse community of interacting hosts are represented as a spatially explicit multiplex network. We adopt this framework for designing and testing potential control strategies for

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Disease Transmission, InfectiousEcosystemEpidemiologic MethodsHost-Parasite InteractionsAnimalsChagas DiseaseCommunicable Disease ControlHumansTrypanosoma cruziecological multiplex networksecologyepidemiologyglobal healthimmunisation strategiesmulti-host parasitesmulti-layer networksmultiple routes of transmissionnoneparasite spreading

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PMID29683427
PMCPMC5962342

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