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A Mechanistic model of snakebite as a zoonosis: Envenoming incidence is driven by snake ecology, socioeconomics and its impacts on snakes

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dc.contributor.author Martín, G.
dc.contributor.author Erinjery, J.J.
dc.contributor.author Ediriweera, D.
dc.contributor.author de Silva, H.J.
dc.contributor.author Lalloo, D.G.
dc.contributor.author Iwamura, T.
dc.contributor.author Murray, K.A.
dc.date.accessioned 2022-05-20T06:42:52Z
dc.date.available 2022-05-20T06:42:52Z
dc.date.issued 2022
dc.identifier.citation PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases.2022;16(5):e0009867. en_US
dc.identifier.issn 1935-2727
dc.identifier.uri http://repository.kln.ac.lk/handle/123456789/24581
dc.description Indexed in MEDLINE. en_US
dc.description.abstract Snakebite is the only WHO-listed, not infectious neglected tropical disease (NTD), although its eco-epidemiology is similar to that of zoonotic infections: envenoming occurs after a vertebrate host contacts a human. Accordingly, snakebite risk represents the interaction between snake and human factors, but their quantification has been limited by data availability. Models of infectious disease transmission are instrumental for the mitigation of NTDs and zoonoses. Here, we represented snake-human interactions with disease transmission models to approximate geospatial estimates of snakebite incidence in Sri Lanka, a global hotspot. Snakebites and envenomings are described by the product of snake and human abundance, mirroring directly transmitted zoonoses. We found that human-snake contact rates vary according to land cover (surrogate of occupation and socioeconomic status), the impacts of humans and climate on snake abundance, and by snake species. Our findings show that modelling snakebite as zoonosis provides a mechanistic eco-epidemiological basis to understand snakebites, and the possible implications of global environmental and demographic change for the burden of snakebite. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher Public Library of Science,San Francisco en_US
dc.subject Socioeconomics en_US
dc.subject Envenoming en_US
dc.title A Mechanistic model of snakebite as a zoonosis: Envenoming incidence is driven by snake ecology, socioeconomics and its impacts on snakes en_US
dc.type Article en_US


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