Detecting the impact of temperature on transmission of Zika, dengue, and chikungunya using mechanistic models.

• Main Authors: Erin A Mordecai (Author), Jeremy M Cohen (Author), Michelle V Evans (Author), Prithvi Gudapati (Author), Leah R Johnson (Author), Catherine A Lippi (Author), Kerri Miazgowicz (Author), Courtney C Murdock (Author), Jason R Rohr (Author), Sadie J Ryan (Author), Van Savage (Author), Marta S Shocket (Author), Anna Stewart Ibarra (Author), Matthew B Thomas (Author), Daniel P Weikel (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2017-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Recent epidemics of Zika, dengue, and chikungunya have heightened the need to understand the seasonal and geographic range of transmission by Aedes aegypti and Ae. albopictus mosquitoes. We use mechanistic transmission models to derive predictions for how the probability and magnitude of transmissio...