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Determining Temperature Preference of Mosquitoes and Other Ectotherms
Published on: September 28, 2022
Assessing the effects of temperature on dengue transmission
H M Yang1, M L G Macoris, K C Galvani
1UNICAMP - IMECC, Departamento de Matemática Aplicada, Campinas, SP, Brazil. hyunyang@ime.unicamp.br
Abstract:
The incidence of dengue infection, a vector-borne disease transmitted by the mosquito Aedes aegypti, shows clear dependence on seasonal variation. Based on the quantification method that furnishes the size of the A. aegypti population in terms of the estimated entomological parameters for different temperatures, we assessed the risk of dengue outbreaks. The persistence and severity of epidemics can be assessed by the basic reproduction number R(0), which varies with temperature. The expression for R(0) obtained from 'true' and 'pseudo' mass action laws for dengue infection is discussed.
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