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Complex transmission landscape in Sichuan Province, China.
For many pathogens with environmental stages, or those carried by vectors or intermediate hosts, transmission is strongly influenced by pathogen, host, and vector movements across complex landscapes like this one, a mountainous area in Sichuan Province, China, where delineated roads and streams, land use, and elevation may facilitate or limit pathogen or host mobility between the two marked villages. Genetic assignment tests provide a powerful means to estimate the magnitude and direction of key movements in infectious disease systems, revealing important ecological and environmental features that influence transmission (see Remais et al., doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1002013).
Image Credit: Justin V. Remais, Emory University
Citation: (2011) PLoS Pathogens Issue Image | Vol. 7(4) April 2011. PLoS Pathog 7(4): ev07.i04. https://doi.org/10.1371/image.ppat.v07.i04
Published: April 28, 2011
Copyright: © 2011 Remais. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
For many pathogens with environmental stages, or those carried by vectors or intermediate hosts, transmission is strongly influenced by pathogen, host, and vector movements across complex landscapes like this one, a mountainous area in Sichuan Province, China, where delineated roads and streams, land use, and elevation may facilitate or limit pathogen or host mobility between the two marked villages. Genetic assignment tests provide a powerful means to estimate the magnitude and direction of key movements in infectious disease systems, revealing important ecological and environmental features that influence transmission (see Remais et al., doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1002013).
Image Credit: Justin V. Remais, Emory University