Spatio-temporal modelling of the epidemiology of nephropathia epidemica and Lyme borrelosis KU Leuven
The incidence of vector-borne diseases can be understood as the output of a complex interplay among three components: the vector/host, the pathogen and the environment. The environmental factors that determine disease risk are those affecting the habitat conditions for vectors/hosts, the presence and prevalence of pathogens and the human exposure to pathogens. Monitoring these factors is a major task in epidemiology that, giventhe complexity of ...