Heterogeneity, Mixing, and the Spatial Scales of Mosquito-Borne Pathogen Transmission
Heterogeneity, Mixing, and the Spatial Scales of Mosquito-Borne Pathogen Transmission
The Ross-Macdonald model has dominated theory for mosquito-borne pathogen transmission dynamics and control for over a century. The model, like many other basic population models, makes the mathematically convenient assumption that populations are well mixed; i.e., that each mosquito is equally likely to bite any vertebrate host. This assumption raises …