Modelling the epidemiology of zoonotic parasites transmitted through a predator-prey system in urban landscapes: The Calgary Echinococcus multilocularis Coyote Agent-based model (CEmCA)

Kensuke Mori, Alessandro Massolo, Danielle Marceau and Emmanuel Stefanakis

Ecological Modelling, 2023, vol. 475, issue C

Abstract: Traditional epidemiological models for managing disease risk face serious hurdles when applied to complex life-cycle parasites that involve several host species. Echinococcus multilocularis (Em) is such a parasite and the aetiological agent of a serious zoonosis, Alveolar Echinococcosis, affecting thousands of people every year worldwide. The parasite is transmitted through predation of infectious intermediate hosts (rodents) by definitive hosts (foxes, coyotes). Definitive hosts are usually territorial with individual home ranges in spatially heterogeneous urban landscapes, where they carry very diverse parasite load, thus creating a highly heterogeneous distribution of the parasite in the urban environment. To incorporate individual differences and spatial heterogeneity into an epidemiological model, we developed Calgary Echinococcus multilocularis Coyote Agent-based model (CEmCA).

Keywords: Epidemiological model; Agent-based model; Complex system; Echinococcus multilocularis; Trophically-transmitted parasite with complex life cycle; Urban landscape; Infectious disease modelling (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2022.110177

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