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Influence of spatial heterogeneity on an emerging infectious disease: the case of dengue epidemics
Charly Favier1, Delphine Schmit, Christine D M Müller-Graf
1SPEC-CEA Saclay, Orme des Merisiers, Gif-sur-Yvette, France. charly.favier@lodyc.jussieu.fr
Abstract:
The importance of spatial heterogeneity and spatial scales (at a village or neighbourhood scale) has been explored with individual-based models. Our reasoning is based on the Chilean Easter Island (EI) case, where a first dengue epidemic occurred in 2002 among the relatively small population localized in one village. Even in this simple situation, the real epidemic is not consistent with homogeneous models. Conversely, including contact heterogeneity on different scales (intra-households, inter-house, inter-areas) allows the recovery of not only the EI epidemiological curve but also the qualitative patterns of Brazilian urban dengue epidemic in more complex situations.
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