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Risk maps for cities: Incorporating streets into geostatistical models.


ABSTRACT: Vector-borne diseases commonly emerge in urban landscapes, and Gaussian field models can be used to create risk maps of vector presence across a large environment. However, these models do not account for the possibility that streets function as permeable barriers for insect vectors. We describe a methodology to transform spatial point data to incorporate permeable barriers, by distorting the map to widen streets, with one additional parameter. We use Gaussian field models to estimate this additional parameter, and develop risk maps incorporating streets as permeable barriers. We demonstrate our method on simulated datasets and apply it to data on Triatoma infestans, a vector of Chagas disease in Arequipa, Peru. We found that the transformed landscape that best fit the observed pattern of Triatoma infestans infestation, approximately doubled the true Euclidean distance between neighboring houses on different city blocks. Our findings may better guide control of re-emergent insect populations.

SUBMITTER: Rose EB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7534288 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Risk maps for cities: Incorporating streets into geostatistical models.

Rose Erica Billig EB   Lee Kwonsang K   Roy Jason A JA   Small Dylan D   Ross Michelle E ME   Castillo-Neyra Ricardo R   Levy Michael Z MZ  

Spatial and spatio-temporal epidemiology 20180829


Vector-borne diseases commonly emerge in urban landscapes, and Gaussian field models can be used to create risk maps of vector presence across a large environment. However, these models do not account for the possibility that streets function as permeable barriers for insect vectors. We describe a methodology to transform spatial point data to incorporate permeable barriers, by distorting the map to widen streets, with one additional parameter. We use Gaussian field models to estimate this addit  ...[more]

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