The risk of a mosquito-borne infection in a heterogeneous environment.

A common assumption about malaria, dengue, and other mosquito-borne infections is that the two main components of the risk of human infection--the rate at which people are bitten (human biting rate) and the proportion of mosquitoes that are infectious--are positively correlated. In fact, these two r...

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Main Authors: David L Smith, Jonathan Dushoff, F Ellis McKenzie
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2004-11-01
Series:PLoS Biology
Online Access:https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.0020368&type=printable
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