ArticleJournal of the Royal Society, Interface2021
Mechanistic movement models reveal ecological drivers of tick-borne pathogen spread.
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- Modeling the differential effect of prescribed fire on multi-vector tick-borne tularemia disease.PloS one · 2025Article
- The roles of habitat isolation, landscape connectivity and host community in tick-borne pathogen ecology.Royal Society open science · 2024Article
- Vectorial dynamics underpinning current and future tick-borne virus emergence in Europe.The Journal of general virology · 2024Review
- Mathematical modelling for pandemic preparedness in Canada: Learning from COVID-19.Canada communicable disease report = Releve des maladies transmissibles au Canada · 2024Article
- Serological and Molecular Survey of Rickettsial Agents in Wild Boars (Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Article
- MERS-CoV Found inViruses · 2023Article
- Context-dependent host dispersal and habitat fragmentation determine heterogeneity in infected tick burdens: an agent-based modelling study.Royal Society open science · 2022Article
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Abstract
Identifying ecological drivers of tick-borne pathogen spread has great value for tick-borne disease management. However, theoretical investigations into the consequences of host movement behaviour on pathogen spread dynamics in heterogeneous landscapes remain limited because spatially explicit epidemiological models that incorporate more realistic mechanisms governing host movement are rare. We built a mechanistic movement model to investigate how the interplay between multiple ecological drivers affects the risk of tick-borne pathogen spread across heterogeneous landscapes. We used the model to generate simulations of tick dispersal by migratory birds and terrestrial hosts across theoretical landscapes varying in resource aggregation, and we performed a sensitivity analysis to explore the impacts of different parameters on the infected tick spread rate, tick infection prevalence and infected tick density. Our findings highlight the importance of host movement and tick population dynamics in explaining the infected tick spread rate into new regions. Tick infection prevalence and infected tick density were driven by predictors related to the infection process and tick population dynamics, respectively. Our results suggest that control strategies aiming to reduce tick burden on tick reproduction hosts and encounter rate between immature ticks and pathogen amplification hosts will be most effective at reducing tick-borne disease risk.
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