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PMID: 20597279 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
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The primary goal of disease ecology is to understand disease systems and then use this information to inform management. The purpose of this paper is to show that conventional disease ecology models are limited in their ability to inform management of systems that are already infected, and to show how such models can be integrated with economic decision models to improve upon management recommendations. Management strategies based solely on disease ecology entail managing infected host populations or reservoir populations below a threshold value based on R0, the basic reproductive ratio of the pathogen, or a multiple-host version of this metric. These metrics measure a pathogen's ability to invade uninfected systems and do not account for postinfection dynamics. Once a pathogen has invaded a population, alternative management criteria are needed. Bioeconomic modeling offers a useful alternative approach to developing management criteria and facilitates the consideration of ecological-economic trade-offs so that diseases are managed in a cost-effective manner. The threshold concept takes on a more profound role under a bioeconomic paradigm: rather than unilaterally determining disease control choices, thresholds inform control choices and are influenced by them. |
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Authors:
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Eli P Fenichel; Richard D Horan; Graham J Hickling |
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Type: Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't; Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S. |
Journal Detail:
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Title: Ecological applications : a publication of the Ecological Society of America Volume: 20 ISSN: 1051-0761 ISO Abbreviation: Ecol Appl Publication Date: 2010 Jun |
Date Detail:
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Created Date: 2010-07-05 Completed Date: 2010-08-03 Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 9889808 Medline TA: Ecol Appl Country: United States |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 903-14 Citation Subset: IM |
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School of Life Science, Arizona State University, Box 874501, Tempe, Arizona 85287-4501, USA. eli.fenichel@asu.edu |
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Animals Animals, Wild* Communicable Disease Control / economics* Host-Pathogen Interactions* Humans Models, Biological* |
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