Gonzalo M. Vazquez-Prokopec

TL;DR: A conceptual model is developed to evaluate the importance of variation in exposure due to individual human movements for pathogen transmission, focusing on mosquito-borne dengue virus, showing that the relevance of human movement at a particular scale depends on vector behavior.

TL;DR: It is argued that reexamination of existing paradigms regarding the spatiotemporal dynamics of DENV and other vector-borne pathogens, especially the importance of human movement, will lead to improvements in disease prevention.

TL;DR: A new mosquito aspirator with the same aspiration capacity (airflow) of the CDC Backpack Aspirator (CDC-BP), but smaller and lighter, less expensive, easier to build, and compatible with the use of telescoping extension poles to access hard-to-reach locations is reported.

TL;DR: The findings provide a mechanistic description of the basic rules that shape human mobility within a resource-poor urban center, and contribute to the understanding of the role of fine-scale patterns of individual movement and co-location in infectious disease dynamics.

TL;DR: The spatio-temporal pattern of a large dengue virus-2 (DENV-2) outbreak that affected the Australian city of Cairns in 2003 was analyzed, the relationship between d Dengue transmission and distance to the epidemic's index case (IC) was quantified, the effects of indoor residual spraying (IRS) on the odds of dengingue infection were evaluated, and recommendations for city-wide denge surveillance and control were generated.