Nature Communications (Sep 2021)

Modelling the persistence and control of Rift Valley fever virus in a spatially heterogeneous landscape

  • Warren S. D. Tennant,
  • Eric Cardinale,
  • Catherine Cêtre-Sossah,
  • Youssouf Moutroifi,
  • Gilles Le Godais,
  • Davide Colombi,
  • Simon E. F. Spencer,
  • Mike J. Tildesley,
  • Matt J. Keeling,
  • Onzade Charafouddine,
  • Vittoria Colizza,
  • W. John Edmunds,
  • Raphaëlle Métras

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25833-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Rift Valley fever is a zoonotic haemorrhagic fever with complex transmission dynamics influenced by environmental variables and animal movements. Here, the authors develop a metapopulation model incorporating these factors and use it to identify the main drivers of transmission in the Comoros archipelago.