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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{Murray:2018:10.1111/ecog.03625,
author = {Murray, KA and Olivero, J and Roche, B and Tiedt, S and Guegan, J},
doi = {10.1111/ecog.03625},
journal = {Ecography},
pages = {1411--1427},
title = {Pathogeography: leveraging the biogeography of human infectious diseases for global health management},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ecog.03625},
volume = {41},
year = {2018}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - Biogeography is an implicit and fundamental component of almost every dimension of modern biology, from natural selection and speciation to invasive species and biodiversity management. However, biogeography has rarely been integrated into human or veterinary medicine nor routinely leveraged for global health management. Here we review the theory and application of biogeography to the research and management of human infectious diseases, an integration we refer to as ‘pathogeography’. Pathogeography represents a promising framework for understanding and decomposing the spatial distributions, diversity patterns and emergence risks of human infectious diseases into interpretable components of dynamic socioecological systems. Analytical tools from biogeography are already helping to improve our understanding of individual infectious disease distributions and the processes that shape them in space and time. At higher levels of organization, biogeographical studies of diseases are rarer but increasing, improving our ability to describe and explain patterns that emerge at the level of disease communities (e.g., cooccurrence, diversity patterns, biogeographic regionalisation). Even in a highly globalized world most human infectious diseases remain constrained in their geographic distributions by ecological barriers to the dispersal or establishment of their causal pathogens, reservoir hosts and/or vectors. These same processes underpin the spatial arrangement of other taxa, such as mammalian biodiversity, providing a strong empirical ‘prior’ with which to assess the potential distributions of infectious diseases when data on their occurrence is unavailable or limited. In the absence of quality data, generalized biogeographic patterns could provide the earliest (and in some cases the only) insights into the potential distributions of many poorly known or emerging, or asyetunknown, infectious disease risks. Encouraging more community ecologists an
AU  - Murray,KA
AU  - Olivero,J
AU  - Roche,B
AU  - Tiedt,S
AU  - Guegan,J
DO  - 10.1111/ecog.03625
EP  - 1427
PY  - 2018///
SN  - 0906-7590
SP  - 1411
TI  - Pathogeography: leveraging the biogeography of human infectious diseases for global health management
T2  - Ecography
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ecog.03625
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/57844
VL  - 41
ER  -
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