Assessing the invasion speed of triatomine populations, chagas disease vectors evaluación de la velocidad de invasión de poblaciones de vectores triatominos de la enfermedad de chagas

 

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Λεπτομέρειες βιβλιογραφικής εγγραφής
Συγγραφείς: Mahdjoub, Tewfik, Kribs, Christopher M.
Μορφή: artículo original
Κατάσταση:Versión publicada
Ημερομηνία έκδοσης:2019
Περιγραφή:Spraying insecticides to control triatomine populations, the vectors of Chagas disease, does not prevent the disease’s reemergence in infested areas. Mathematical models try to explain this reemergence in terms of the factors underlying sylvatic transmission of the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi. The presence of reservoir hosts such as woodrats is essential to the infection’s geographical spread. This study models a vector-host system using integrodifference equations to incorporate dispersal as well as hostvector interactions. These equations capture, simultaneously, the three processes taking place between successive generations: demography, infection and spatial dispersal. Travelling waves, the solutions of the integrodifference equations thus derived, allow one to calculate numerically the invasion speed of the disease. Neubert-Caswell’s theorem can then be applied to calculate the analytical invasion speed.
Χώρα:Portal de Revistas UCR
Ίδρυμα:Universidad de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UCR
Γλώσσα:Inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/39949
Διαθέσιμο Online:https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/matematica/article/view/39949
Λέξη-Κλειδί :Chagas disease
vector-host contacts
integrodifference equations
travelling waves
invasion speed
enfermedad de Chagas
interacción vector-hospedero
ecuaciones de integrodiferencias
ondas viajeras
velocidad de invasión