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ArticlePreventive veterinary medicine2021

Animal movement in a pastoralist population in the Maasai Mara Ecosystem in Kenya and implications for pathogen spread and control.

George P Omondi, Vincent Obanda, Kimberly VanderWaal, John Deen, Dominic A Travis

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Article in Preventive veterinary medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8citing papers in PubMed
2.4field-weighted citation impact, top 12% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

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8 citing papers in PubMed, 16 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

George P OmondiDepartment of Veterinary Population Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, United States; Ahadi Veterinary Resource Center, P.O. Box 51002, 00200, Nairobi, Kenya. Electronic address: paulx176@umn.edu.
Vincent ObandaAhadi Veterinary Resource Center, P.O. Box 51002, 00200, Nairobi, Kenya; Veterinary Services Department, Kenya Wildlife Service, P.O. Box 40241, 00100, Nairobi, Kenya.
Kimberly VanderWaalDepartment of Veterinary Population Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, United States.
John DeenDepartment of Veterinary Population Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, United States.
Dominic A TravisDepartment of Veterinary Population Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, United States.
University of Minnesota · USKenya Wildlife Service · KE

Funding

NPGH LEADERs YR12: OBSSR (Greenberg, Ngwafong Mukere) & NIBIB (Lee)D43TW009345 · FIC · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI Dibyadyuti Datta, Chandy C. John · 2017 to 2026
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FIC NIH HHS D43 TW009345
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Livestock movements are important drivers for infectious disease transmission. However, paucity of such data in pastoralist communities in rangeland ecosystems limits our understanding of their dynamics and hampers disease surveillance and control. The aim of this study was to investigate animal movement networks in a pastoralist community in Kenya, and assess network-based strategies for disease control. We used network analysis to characterize five types of between-village animal movement networks. We then evaluated implications of these networks for disease spread and control by quantifying topological changes in the network associated with targeted and random removal of nodes. To construct these networks, data were collected using standardized questionnaires (N = 165 households) from communities living within the Maasai Mara Ecosystem in southwestern Kenya. Our analyses show that the Maasai Mara National Reserve (MMNR), a protected wildlife area, was critical for maintaining village connectivity in the agistment network (dry season grazing), with MMNR-adjacent villages being highly utilized during the dry season. In terms of disease dynamics, the network-based basic reproduction number, R

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Animal HusbandryCattle DiseasesGoat DiseasesSheep DiseasesAnimalsCattleCommunicable Disease ControlDisease Transmission, InfectiousGoatsKenyaLivestockModels, TheoreticalSheepSheep, DomesticTransportationAnimal movementDisease controlFragmentation indexNetwork analysisPastoralist MobilityPathogen spread

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PMID33453561
PMCPMC8787859
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