Quantifying global drivers of Zoonotic bat viruses: A process-based perspective
This study creates a process-based framework to separate out components of individual emergence steps
Abstract
Emerging infectious diseases (EIDs), particularly zoonoses, represent a significant threat to global health. Emergence is often driven by anthropogenic activity (e.g., travel, land use change). Although disease emergence frameworks suggest multiple steps from initial zoonotic transmission to human-to-human spread, there have been few attempts to empirically model specific steps. We create a process-based framework to separate out components of individual emergence steps. We focus on early emergence and expand the first step, zoonotic transmission, into processes of generation of pathogen richness, transmission opportunity, and establishment, each with its own hypothesized drivers.
Citation
Brierley, L., Vonhof, M.J., Olival, K.J., Daszak, P., Jones, K.E., Quantifying global drivers of Zoonotic bat viruses: A process-based perspective, American Naturalist, vol.187, issue2, pp.E53-E64, 2016
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Quantifying global drivers of Zoonotic bat viruses: A process-based perspective