Nature Communications (Sep 2019)
Pareto rules for malaria super-spreaders and super-spreading
- Laura Cooper,
- Su Yun Kang,
- Donal Bisanzio,
- Kilama Maxwell,
- Isabel Rodriguez-Barraquer,
- Bryan Greenhouse,
- Chris Drakeley,
- Emmanuel Arinaitwe,
- Sarah G. Staedke,
- Peter W. Gething,
- Philip Eckhoff,
- Robert C. Reiner,
- Simon I. Hay,
- Grant Dorsey,
- Moses R. Kamya,
- Steven W. Lindsay,
- Bryan T. Grenfell,
- David L. Smith
Affiliations
- Laura Cooper
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University
- Su Yun Kang
- Oxford Big Data Institute, Li Ka Shing Centre for Health Information and Discovery, University of Oxford
- Donal Bisanzio
- Oxford Big Data Institute, Li Ka Shing Centre for Health Information and Discovery, University of Oxford
- Kilama Maxwell
- Infectious Diseases Research Collaboration
- Isabel Rodriguez-Barraquer
- Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University
- Bryan Greenhouse
- Department of Medicine, University of California
- Chris Drakeley
- London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
- Emmanuel Arinaitwe
- Infectious Diseases Research Collaboration
- Sarah G. Staedke
- London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
- Peter W. Gething
- Oxford Big Data Institute, Li Ka Shing Centre for Health Information and Discovery, University of Oxford
- Philip Eckhoff
- Institute for Disease Modeling
- Robert C. Reiner
- Department of Health Metrics Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Washington
- Simon I. Hay
- Department of Health Metrics Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Washington
- Grant Dorsey
- Department of Medicine, University of California
- Moses R. Kamya
- School of Medicine, Makerere University College of Health Sciences
- Steven W. Lindsay
- School of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Durham University
- Bryan T. Grenfell
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University
- David L. Smith
- Department of Health Metrics Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Washington
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11861-y
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 10,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 9
Abstract
Investigating malaria transmission at three sites in Uganda, the authors identify super-spreaders and show that super-spreading is more prominent at low-intensity transmission, and that seasonality and environmental stochasticity have a greater influence on super-spreading.
