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Project

Quantifying the transmission dynamics of two rodent-borne viral infections in a variable environment.

For a better understanding of the transmission of infections, an integrative approach can prove very useful. With the ultimate aim of creating stochastic, individual-based mathematical models of the transmission of a rodent-borne virus (Mopeia virus in the African multimammate mouse Mastomys natalensis), we will use laboratory as well as field experiments to collect the data necessary to feed the models. These models allow us to test fundamental epidemiological theories that have so far proven elusive to prove but are now, thanks to the unique field setup that will be used, possible to test.
Date:1 Oct 2011 →  30 Sep 2013
Keywords:EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY, VIRAL INFECTION, RODENTS
Disciplines:Animal biology, Microbiology, Veterinary medicine