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SUMMARY:Dissecting disease transmission between species - Dr Mafalda Viana
 \,Institute of Biodiversity\, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine\, Uni
 versity of Glasgow
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CONTACT:Fiona Roby
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: Many important human\, wildlife and livestock diseas
 es infect multiple host species. However\, in most cases only a subset of 
 the hosts that can be infected are important for long-term pathogen persis
 tence at the population level (i.e. the ‘reservoir’). Failure to under
 stand which hosts constitute the infection reservoirs greatly undermines c
 ontrol strategies. There is still no standard approach to identify reservo
 irs but in this talk\, using a series of case-studies\, I will show how us
 ing modelling techniques such state-space modelling (SSM) can help us addr
 ess this previously intractable problem by enabling dissection of disease 
 dynamics. Specifically\, quantification of cross-species transmission and 
 how disease dynamics are impacted both by interventions and other interact
 ing pathogens populations.
LOCATION:Lecture Theatre 2\, Department of Veterinary Medicine
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