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SUBMITTER: Johnstone-Robertson SP
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5289603 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Johnstone-Robertson Simon P SP Fleming Peter J S PJ Ward Michael P MP Davis Stephen A SA
PLoS neglected tropical diseases 20170123 1
Modelling disease dynamics is most useful when data are limited. We present a spatial transmission model for the spread of canine rabies in the currently rabies-free wild dog population of Australia. The introduction of a sub-clinically infected dog from Indonesia is a distinct possibility, as is the spillover infection of wild dogs. Ranges for parameters were estimated from the literature and expert opinion, or set to span an order of magnitude. Rabies was judged to have spread spatially if a n ...[more]