Population Biology of Vector-Borne Diseases. Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases Series.

As in much of vector-borne disease media, much of the content is devoted to mosquito-borne disease systems, although other vectors such as ticks, triatomines, biting midges, and tsetse flies are covered in single chapters. Section II, Empirical Ecology, serves as a catchall for research that is not purely theoretical, including a detailed review of environmental drivers of vector-borne diseases and a piece on ecological interactions in tick-borne disease systems. Beginning with a review of basic quantitative concepts and approaches used in the study of vector-borne diseases, the section subsequently covers spatial modeling, infectious disease forecasting, and urban vector-borne disease spread. [Extracted from the article]

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