title: The importance of age dependent mortality and the extrinsic incubation period in models of mosquito-borne disease transmission and control.
abstract: Nearly all mathematical models of vector-borne diseases have assumed that vectors die at constant rates. However, recent empirical research suggests that mosquito mortality rates are frequently age dependent. This work develops a simple mathematical model to assess how relaxing the classical assumption of constant mortality affects the predicted effectiveness of anti-vectorial interventions. The effectiveness of mosquito control when mosquitoes die at age dependent rates was also compared across different extrinsic incubation periods. Compared to a more realistic age dependent model, constant mortality models overestimated the sensitivity of disease transmission to interventions that reduce mosquito survival. Interventions that reduce mosquito survival were also found to be slightly less effective when implemented in systems with shorter EIPs. Future transmission models that examine anti-vectorial interventions should incorporate realistic age dependent mortality rates.
authors.affiliation: Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America. sbellan@berkeley.edu
authors.forename: Steve E
authors.initials: SE
authors.lastname: Bellan
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D000818:Animals; D009033:Culicidae; D018562:Disease Transmission, Infectious; D007303:Insect Vectors; D023421:Models, Animal; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009026:Mortality; D009032:Mosquito Control; D015996:Survival Rate
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