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SUBMITTER: Demers J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6127172 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Demers Jeffery J Bewick Sharon S Calabrese Justin J Fagan William F WF
Journal of the Royal Society, Interface 20180801 145
Personal protection measures, such as bed nets and repellents, are important tools for the suppression of vector-borne diseases like malaria and Zika, and the ability of health agencies to distribute protection and encourage its use plays an important role in the efficacy of community-wide disease management strategies. Recent modelling studies have shown that a counterintuitive diversity-driven amplification in community-wide disease levels can result from a population's partial adoption of per ...[more]