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Seasonally timed treatment programs for Ascaris lumbricoides to increase impact - an investigation using mathematical models
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Davis, Emma L., Danon, Leon, Prada, Joaquín M., Gunawardena, Sharmini A., Truscott, James E., Vlaminck, Johnny, Anderson, Roy M., Levecke, Bruno, Morgan, Eric R. and Hollingsworth, T. Déirdre (2018) Seasonally timed treatment programs for Ascaris lumbricoides to increase impact - an investigation using mathematical models. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 12 (1). e0006195. doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0006195 ISSN 1935-2727.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0006195
Abstract
There is clear empirical evidence that environmental conditions can influence Ascaris spp. free-living stage development and host reinfection, but the impact of these differences on human infections, and interventions to control them, is variable. A new model framework reflecting four key stages of the A. lumbricoides life cycle, incorporating the effects of rainfall and temperature, is used to describe the level of infection in the human population alongside the environmental egg dynamics. Using data from South Korea and Nigeria, we conclude that settings with extreme fluctuations in rainfall or temperature could exhibit strong seasonal transmission patterns that may be partially masked by the longevity of A. lumbricoides infections in hosts; we go on to demonstrate how seasonally timed mass drug administration (MDA) could impact the outcomes of control strategies. For the South Korean setting the results predict a comparative decrease of 74.5% in mean worm days (the number of days the average individual spend infected with worms across a 12 month period) between the best and worst MDA timings after four years of annual treatment. The model found no significant seasonal effect on MDA in the Nigerian setting due to a narrower annual temperature range and no rainfall dependence. Our results suggest that seasonal variation in egg survival and maturation could be exploited to maximise the impact of MDA in certain settings.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||||||
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Subjects: | R Medicine > RC Internal medicine | ||||||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Life Sciences (2010- ) Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Mathematics |
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SWORD Depositor: | Library Publications Router | ||||||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Ascaris lumbricoides -- Treatment -- Mathematical mdoels | ||||||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases | ||||||||||||
Publisher: | Public Library of Science | ||||||||||||
ISSN: | 1935-2727 | ||||||||||||
Official Date: | 18 January 2018 | ||||||||||||
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Volume: | 12 | ||||||||||||
Number: | 1 | ||||||||||||
Article Number: | e0006195 | ||||||||||||
DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pntd.0006195 | ||||||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||||||
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | ** From PubMed via Jisc Publications Router. ** History: received 03-07-2017; accepted 27-12-2017. | ||||||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 2 February 2018 | ||||||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 2 February 2018 | ||||||||||||
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