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Infectious disease spread in connected communities
Ecohydrology and epidemiology share a deep bond in infectious disease modelling. The former focuses on the interaction among species and their water-controlled environment (i.e., the study of water controls on the biota). The latter revolves around specif ...
EPFL2024Space and time predictions of schistosomiasis snail host population dynamics across hydrologic regimes in Burkina Faso
Andrea Rinaldo, Theophile Mande, Francisco Javier Perez Saez
The ecology of the aquatic snails that serve as obligatory intermediate hosts of human schistosomiasis is driven by climatic and hydrological factors which result in specific spatial patterns of occurrence and abundance. These patterns in turn affect, join ...
2019Comparative analysis of time-based and quadrat sampling in seasonal population dynamics of intermediate hosts of human schistosomes
Andrea Rinaldo, Theophile Mande, Francisco Javier Perez Saez
Background Despite their importance for designing and evaluating schistosomiasis control trials, little attention in the literature has been dedicated to sampling protocols for the parasite's snail intermediate hosts since their first development. We propo ...
2019