Discovering environmental management opportunities for infectious disease control

Abstract Climate change and emerging drug resistance make the control of many infectious diseases increasingly challenging and diminish the exclusive reliance on drug treatment as sole solution to the problem. As disease transmission often depends on environmental conditions that can be modified, su...

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Autores principales:	Ludovica Beltrame, Hannah Rose Vineer, Josephine G. Walker, Eric R. Morgan, Peter Vickerman, Thorsten Wagener
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Publicado:	Nature Portfolio 2021
Materias:	Medicine R Science Q
Acceso en línea:	https://doaj.org/article/762e1c3b33314443bd18cbc1d4e55362
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:762e1c3b33314443bd18cbc1d4e553622021-12-02T11:39:33ZDiscovering environmental management opportunities for infectious disease control10.1038/s41598-021-85250-12045-2322https://doaj.org/article/762e1c3b33314443bd18cbc1d4e553622021-03-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-85250-1https://doaj.org/toc/2045-2322Abstract Climate change and emerging drug resistance make the control of many infectious diseases increasingly challenging and diminish the exclusive reliance on drug treatment as sole solution to the problem. As disease transmission often depends on environmental conditions that can be modified, such modifications may become crucial to risk reduction if we can assess their potential benefit at policy-relevant scales. However, so far, the value of environmental management for this purpose has received little attention. Here, using the parasitic disease of fasciolosis in livestock in the UK as a case study, we demonstrate how mechanistic hydro-epidemiological modelling can be applied to understand disease risk drivers and the efficacy of environmental management across a large heterogeneous domain. Our results show how weather and other environmental characteristics interact to define disease transmission potential and reveal that environmental interventions such as risk avoidance management strategies can provide a valuable alternative or complement to current treatment-based control practice.Ludovica BeltrameHannah Rose VineerJosephine G. WalkerEric R. MorganPeter VickermanThorsten WagenerNature PortfolioarticleMedicineRScienceQENScientific Reports, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 1-10 (2021)
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description	Abstract Climate change and emerging drug resistance make the control of many infectious diseases increasingly challenging and diminish the exclusive reliance on drug treatment as sole solution to the problem. As disease transmission often depends on environmental conditions that can be modified, such modifications may become crucial to risk reduction if we can assess their potential benefit at policy-relevant scales. However, so far, the value of environmental management for this purpose has received little attention. Here, using the parasitic disease of fasciolosis in livestock in the UK as a case study, we demonstrate how mechanistic hydro-epidemiological modelling can be applied to understand disease risk drivers and the efficacy of environmental management across a large heterogeneous domain. Our results show how weather and other environmental characteristics interact to define disease transmission potential and reveal that environmental interventions such as risk avoidance management strategies can provide a valuable alternative or complement to current treatment-based control practice.
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title	Discovering environmental management opportunities for infectious disease control
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Discovering environmental management opportunities for infectious disease control

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