Search Results - "Ryan, Sadie"
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Global expansion and redistribution of Aedes-borne virus transmission risk with climate change
Published in PLoS neglected tropical diseases (01-03-2019)“…Forecasting the impacts of climate change on Aedes-borne viruses-especially dengue, chikungunya, and Zika-is a key component of public health preparedness. We…”
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Detecting the impact of temperature on transmission of Zika, dengue, and chikungunya using mechanistic models
Published in PLoS neglected tropical diseases (27-04-2017)“…Recent epidemics of Zika, dengue, and chikungunya have heightened the need to understand the seasonal and geographic range of transmission by Aedes aegypti and…”
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Nonlinear and delayed impacts of climate on dengue risk in Barbados: A modelling study
Published in PLoS medicine (17-07-2018)“…Over the last 5 years (2013-2017), the Caribbean region has faced an unprecedented crisis of co-occurring epidemics of febrile illness due to arboviruses…”
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Thermal biology of mosquito‐borne disease
Published in Ecology letters (01-10-2019)“…Mosquito‐borne diseases cause a major burden of disease worldwide. The vital rates of these ectothermic vectors and parasites respond strongly and nonlinearly…”
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Shifting transmission risk for malaria in Africa with climate change: a framework for planning and intervention
Published in Malaria journal (01-05-2020)“…Malaria continues to be a disease of massive burden in Africa, and the public health resources targeted at surveillance, prevention, control, and intervention…”
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Misconceptions about weather and seasonality must not misguide COVID-19 response
Published in Nature communications (27-08-2020)“…Weather may marginally affect COVID-19 dynamics, but misconceptions about the way that climate and weather drive exposure and transmission have adversely…”
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Dengue vector dynamics (Aedes aegypti) influenced by climate and social factors in Ecuador: implications for targeted control
Published in PloS one (12-11-2013)“…Dengue fever, a mosquito-borne viral disease, is now the fastest spreading tropical disease globally. Previous studies indicate that climate and human behavior…”
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LoCoH: nonparameteric kernel methods for constructing home ranges and utilization distributions
Published in PloS one (14-02-2007)“…Parametric kernel methods currently dominate the literature regarding the construction of animal home ranges (HRs) and utilization distributions (UDs). These…”
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Temperature impacts the environmental suitability for malaria transmission by Anopheles gambiae and Anopheles stephensi
Published in Ecology (Durham) (01-08-2022)“…Extrinsic environmental factors influence the spatiotemporal dynamics of many organisms, including insects that transmit the pathogens responsible for…”
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Consequences of non-intervention for infectious disease in African great apes
Published in PloS one (22-12-2011)“…Infectious disease has recently joined poaching and habitat loss as a major threat to African apes. Both "naturally" occurring pathogens, such as Ebola and…”
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Optimal temperature for malaria transmission is dramatically lower than previously predicted
Published in Ecology letters (01-01-2013)“…The ecology of mosquito vectors and malaria parasites affect the incidence, seasonal transmission and geographical range of malaria. Most malaria models to…”
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Temperature explains broad patterns of Ross River virus transmission
Published in eLife (28-08-2018)“…Thermal biology predicts that vector-borne disease transmission peaks at intermediate temperatures and declines at high and low temperatures. However, thermal…”
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Patterns and perceptions of climate change in a biodiversity conservation hotspot
Published in PloS one (27-02-2012)“…Quantifying local people's perceptions to climate change, and their assessments of which changes matter, is fundamental to addressing the dual challenge of…”
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Climate change could shift disease burden from malaria to arboviruses in Africa
Published in The Lancet. Planetary health (01-09-2020)“…Malaria is a long-standing public health problem in sub-Saharan Africa, whereas arthropod-borne viruses (arboviruses) such as dengue and chikungunya cause an…”
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Social-ecological factors and preventive actions decrease the risk of dengue infection at the household-level: Results from a prospective dengue surveillance study in Machala, Ecuador
Published in PLoS neglected tropical diseases (18-12-2017)“…In Ecuador, dengue virus (DENV) infections transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito are among the greatest public health concerns in urban coastal…”
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Temperature drives Zika virus transmission: evidence from empirical and mathematical models
Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society. B, Biological sciences (15-08-2018)“…Temperature is a strong driver of vector-borne disease transmission. Yet, for emerging arboviruses we lack fundamental knowledge on the relationship between…”
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Consensus and conflict among ecological forecasts of Zika virus outbreaks in the United States
Published in Scientific reports (21-03-2018)“…Ecologists are increasingly involved in the pandemic prediction process. In the course of the Zika outbreak in the Americas, several ecological models were…”
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Addressing vulnerability, building resilience: community-based adaptation to vector-borne diseases in the context of global change
Published in Infectious diseases of poverty (11-12-2017)“…The threat of a rapidly changing planet - of coupled social, environmental and climatic change - pose new conceptual and practical challenges in responding to…”
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Influence of environmental, geographic, socio-demographic, and epidemiological factors on presence of malaria at the community level in two continents
Published in Scientific reports (20-07-2024)“…The interactions of environmental, geographic, socio-demographic, and epidemiological factors in shaping mosquito-borne disease transmission dynamics are…”
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High prevalence of Zika virus infection in populations of Aedes aegypti from South-western Ecuador
Published in PLoS neglected tropical diseases (01-01-2024)“…We performed an arboviral survey in mosquitoes from four endemic Ecuadorian cities (Huaquillas, Machala, Portovelo and Zaruma) during the epidemic period…”
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