Modeling the impact of global warming on vector-borne infections.
Global warming will certainly affect the abundance and distribution of disease vectors. The effect of global warming, however, depends on the complex interaction between the human host population and the causative infectious agent. In this work we review some mathematical models that were proposed to study the impact of the increase in ambient temperature on the spread and gravity of some insect-transmitted diseases.
School of Medicine, University of São Paulo and LIM01-HCFMUSP, SP, Brazil. edmassad@usp.br
Eduardo
E
Massad
Francisco Antonio Bezerra
FA
Coutinho
Luis Fernandez
LF
Lopez
Daniel Rodrigues
DR
da Silva
D000818:Animals; D003141:Communicable Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000635:transmission*; D004196:Disease Outbreaks; D004199:Disease Vectors; D057232:Global Warming; D006801:Humans; D007303:Insect Vectors / Q000821:virology; D008954:Models, Biological