Spatially Explicit Conditions for Waterborne Pathogen Invasion
Spatially Explicit Conditions for Waterborne Pathogen Invasion
Waterborne pathogens cause many possibly lethal human diseases. We derive the condition for pathogen invasion and subsequent disease outbreak in a territory with specific, space-inhomogeneous characteristics (hydrological, ecological, demographic, and epidemiological). The criterion relies on a spatially explicit model accounting for the density of susceptible and infected individuals and the …