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ProfessorKrisMurray

Faculty of Medicine, School of Public Health

Honorary Senior Lecturer
 
 
 
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Norfolk PlaceSt Mary's Campus

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@article{Martin:2021:10.1101/2021.10.01.21264438,
author = {Martin, G and Erinjery, J and Ediriweera, D and de, Silva HJ and Lalloo, DG and Iwamura, T and Murray, KA},
doi = {10.1101/2021.10.01.21264438},
title = {Redefining snakebite envenoming as a zoonosis: disease incidence is driven by snake ecology, socioeconomics and anthropogenic impacts},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2021.10.01.21264438},
year = {2021}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - <jats:p>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 redefining 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.</jats:p>
AU  - Martin,G
AU  - Erinjery,J
AU  - Ediriweera,D
AU  - de,Silva HJ
AU  - Lalloo,DG
AU  - Iwamura,T
AU  - Murray,KA
DO  - 10.1101/2021.10.01.21264438
PY  - 2021///
TI  - Redefining snakebite envenoming as a zoonosis: disease incidence is driven by snake ecology, socioeconomics and anthropogenic impacts
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2021.10.01.21264438
ER  -
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