Assembling evidence for identifying reservoirs of infection

Highlights • We review the problem of identifying reservoirs of infection for multihost pathogens and provide an overview of current approaches and future directions.• We provide a conceptual framework for classifying patterns of incidence and prevalence.• We review current methods that allow us to characterise the components of reservoir-target systems.• Ecological theory offers promising new ways to prioritise populations when designing interventions.• We propose using interventions as quasi-experiments embedded in adaptive management frameworks.• Integration of data and analysis provides powerful new opportunities for studying multihost systems.

• Publication year

  2014

• Venue

  Trends in Ecology & Evolution

• Publication date

  2014-04-11

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1016/j.tree.2014.03.002PMID 24726345PMCID 4007595
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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