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Tildesley, Michael J. and Ryan, Sadie J. (2012) Disease prevention versus data privacy : using landcover maps to inform spatial epidemic models. PLoS Computational Biology, Vol.8 (No.11). e1002723. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002723 ISSN 1553-7358.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002723
Abstract
The availability of epidemiological data in the early stages of an outbreak of an infectious disease is vital for modelers to make accurate predictions regarding the likely spread of disease and preferred intervention strategies. However, in some countries, the necessary demographic data are only available at an aggregate scale. We investigated the ability of models of livestock infectious diseases to predict epidemic spread and obtain optimal control policies in the event of imperfect, aggregated data. Taking a geographic information approach, we used land cover data to predict UK farm locations and investigated the influence of using these synthetic location data sets upon epidemiological predictions in the event of an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease. When broadly classified land cover data were used to create synthetic farm locations, model predictions deviated significantly from those simulated on true data. However, when more resolved subclass land use data were used, moderate to highly accurate predictions of epidemic size, duration and optimal vaccination and ring culling strategies were obtained. This suggests that a geographic information approach may be useful where individual farm-level data are not available, to allow predictive analyses to be carried out regarding the likely spread of disease. This method can also be used for contingency planning in collaboration with policy makers to determine preferred control strategies in the event of a future outbreak of infectious disease in livestock.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Subjects: | S Agriculture > SF Animal culture | ||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Research Centres > Centre for Complexity Science Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Mathematics |
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Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Communicable diseases -- Transmission -- Mathematical models, Land cover, Farms -- Data processing | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | PLoS Computational Biology | ||||
Publisher: | Public Library of Science | ||||
ISSN: | 1553-7358 | ||||
Official Date: | 2012 | ||||
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Volume: | Vol.8 | ||||
Number: | No.11 | ||||
Page Range: | e1002723 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002723 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 23 December 2015 | ||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 23 December 2015 | ||||
Funder: | National Science Foundation (U.S.) (NSF), United States. Dept. of Homeland Security, United States. Dept. of Agriculture, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (NIH), University of California, Santa Barbara, California | ||||
Grant number: | EF-0832858 (NSF), ST-108-000017 (DHS), EF-0553768 (NSF) |
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