Realistic assumptions about spatial locations and clustering of premises matter for models of foot-and-mouth disease spread in the United States.

Spatially explicit livestock disease models require demographic data for individual farms or premises. In the U.S., demographic data are only available aggregated at county or coarser scales, so disease models must rely on assumptions about how individual premises are distributed within counties. He...

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Main Authors: Stefan Sellman, Michael J Tildesley, Christopher L Burdett, Ryan S Miller, Clayton Hallman, Colleen T Webb, Uno Wennergren, Katie Portacci, Tom Lindström
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-02-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007641