Inferring the regional distribution of Visceral Leishmaniasis incidence from data at different spatial scales
Increasing the range of reactive interventions to neighbouring villages may not improve their efficacy in suppressing transmission, but maintaining surveillance and diagnostic capacity in areas distant from recently observed cases - particularly along routes of population movement from endemic regions - could reduce reintroduction risk in currently unaffected villages. The reactive, spatially-targeted approach to VL surveillance limits interpretability of data observed at the village level, and hence the feasibility of routinely drawing and validating inference at this scale.
Authors
- Lloyd A. C. Chapman (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7727-7102)
- Swaminathan Subramanian (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0804-0763)
- Emily Nightingale (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9265-1841)
- Graham F. Medley (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0030-7278)
- Oliver J. Brady (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3235-2129)
- Tim Lucas (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4694-8107)
- P Jambulingam (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0962-6953)
- Mary Cameron (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5693-082X)
- Ashley R. Schwarzer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-8915-8165)
Institutions
- University of London (GB)
- University of Leicester (GB)
- London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (GB)
- Vector Control Research Centre (IN)
- Lancaster University (GB)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Communications Medicine
- Published
- 2024-11-20
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s43856-024-00659-9
- Citations
- 2
- Primary Topic
- Research on Leishmaniasis Studies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 1.09