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Integrating contact network structure into tuberculosis epidemiology in meerkats in South Africa: Implications for control
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Results indicated that grooming was more likely than aggression to be correlated with M. bovis transmission and that groomers were at higher risk of infection than groomees, and intervention strategies for managing TB in meerkats that focus on those individuals engaging in the highest amount of grooming are proposed.About:
This article is published in Preventive Veterinary Medicine.The article was published on 2011-08-01. It has received 62 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Population.read more
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Infectious disease transmission and contact networks in wildlife and livestock
TL;DR: The rising popularity of network approaches for understanding transmission dynamics in wild animal and livestock populations is described; the common mismatch between contact networks as measured in animal behaviour and relevant parasites to match those networks is discussed; and knowledge gaps in how to collect and analyse contact data are highlighted.
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Heterogeneity in pathogen transmission: mechanisms and methodology
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe mechanisms that promote variation in the number of individuals to which an individual transmits a pathogen, emphasizing insights that can be gained by understanding which components of transmission (infectiousness, contact rate, infection duration) are primarily affected.
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Using contact networks to explore mechanisms of parasite transmission in wildlife.
TL;DR: How contact networks have been used to study macro‐ and microparasite transmission in wildlife is reviewed to explain why contact heterogeneity is relevant for wildlife populations and suggest improvements and future directions for contact network studies in wildlife.
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Networks and the ecology of parasite transmission: A framework for wildlife parasitology.
TL;DR: In this paper, the application of network models in representing the transmission of parasites with more complex life cycles, and illustrates the way in which this approach can be used to answer ecological questions about the transmission in wildlife populations.
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Novel cause of tuberculosis in meerkats, South Africa.
Sven D.C. Parsons,Julian A. Drewe,Nicolaas C. Gey van Pittius,Robin M. Warren,Paul D. van Helden +4 more
TL;DR: The organism that causes tuberculosis in meerkats (Suricata suricatta) is shown to be a novel member of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex and closely related to the dassie bacillus.
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