Assessing the impact of aggregating disease stage data in model predictions of human African trypanosomiasis transmission and control activities in Bandundu province (DRC)

María Soledad Castaño; Martial L. Ndeffo-Mbah; Kat S. Rock; Cody Palmer; Edward Knock; Erick Mwamba Miaka; Joseph M. Ndung’u; Steve Torr; Paul Verlé; Simon E. F. Spencer; Alison Galvani; Caitlin Bever; Matt J. Keeling; Nakul Chitnis

doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0007976

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Assessing the impact of aggregating disease stage data in model predictions of human African trypanosomiasis transmission and control activities in Bandundu province (DRC)

María Soledad Castaño ,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: soledad.castano@swisstph.ch

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4966-2243

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Martial L. Ndeffo-Mbah,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations School of Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biosciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America
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Kat S. Rock,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Zeeman Institute for Systems Biology and Infectious Disease Epidemiology Research, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom, Mathematics Institute, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom
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Cody Palmer,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Disease Modeling, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
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Edward Knock,

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Zeeman Institute for Systems Biology and Infectious Disease Epidemiology Research, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom, Department of Statistics, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom
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Erick Mwamba Miaka,

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Programme National de Lutte contre la Trypanosomiase Humaine Africaine, Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Joseph M. Ndung’u,

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics, Geneva, Switzerland
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Steve Torr,

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Vector Biology, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9550-4030

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Paul Verlé,

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium
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Simon E. F. Spencer,

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Zeeman Institute for Systems Biology and Infectious Disease Epidemiology Research, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom, Department of Statistics, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom
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Alison Galvani,

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
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Caitlin Bever,

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Disease Modeling, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
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Matt J. Keeling,

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Zeeman Institute for Systems Biology and Infectious Disease Epidemiology Research, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom, Mathematics Institute, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom
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Nakul Chitnis

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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Assessing the impact of aggregating disease stage data in model predictions of human African trypanosomiasis transmission and control activities in Bandundu province (DRC)

María Soledad Castaño,
Martial L. Ndeffo-Mbah,
Kat S. Rock,
Cody Palmer,
Edward Knock,
Erick Mwamba Miaka,
Joseph M. Ndung’u,
Steve Torr,
Paul Verlé,
Simon E. F. Spencer

Published: January 21, 2020
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0007976

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