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Epidemiology of canine leishmaniasis: prevalence, incidence and basic reproduction number calculated from a cross-sectional serological survey on the island of Gozo, Malta

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

C. Dye ,
R. Killick-Kendrick ,
M. M. Vitutia ,
R. Walton ,
M. Killick-Kendrick ,
A. E. Harith ,
M. W. Guy ,
M.-C. Cañavate  and
G. Hasibeder
C. Dye
Affiliation:
Department of Medical Parasitology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC 1E 7HT, UK
R. Killick-Kendrick
Affiliation:
Imperial College at Silwood Park, Ascot, Berkshire SL5 7PY, UK Medical Research Council External Staff.
M. M. Vitutia
Affiliation:
Servicio de Parasitologia, CNMVIS, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, 28220 Majadahonda, Madrid, Spain
R. Walton
Affiliation:
School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
M. Killick-Kendrick
Affiliation:
Imperial College at Silwood Park, Ascot, Berkshire SL5 7PY, UK
A. E. Harith
Affiliation:
Prince Leopold Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nationalestraat 155, B-2000 Antwerp, Belgium
M. W. Guy
Affiliation:
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Pembroke Place, Liverpool L3 5QA, UK
M.-C. Cañavate
Affiliation:
Servicio de Parasitologia, CNMVIS, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, 28220 Majadahonda, Madrid, Spain
G. Hasibeder
Affiliation:
Abteilung für Mathematische Biologie, Technische Universität Wien, Wiedner Hauptstrasse 8/118, A-1040 Wien, Austria
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Assessment of the resilience of canine leishmaniasis to control or, more ambitiously, the effort needed to eradicate infection, requires an estimate of the basic case reproduction number (R0). This paper applies the theoretical results of Hasibeder, Dye & Carpenter (1992) to data from a cross-sectional survey on the Maltese island of Gozo in which dogs of known age, sex and occupation (pet, guard etc) were subjected to three different serological tests for the presence of specific antibody (IFAT, DAT and ELISA). Difficulties in interpreting these test results, and hence of determining the proportion of dogs infected, present the main obstacle to estimating R0: estimates are critically dependent on the choice of threshold separating seropositives from seronegatives. The data do, however, allow a robust comparative analysis of risk which shows that the force of infection experienced by working dogs is about three times higher than that of pet dogs, a degree of non-homogeneous contact which actually has little effect on estimates of R0. We suggest a cautious point estimate of R0 ≃ 11, and comment briefly on its significance for leishmaniasis control.

Keywords

canine leishmaniasisepidemiologyMaltabasic reproduction numbersandfliesserology.
Type
Research Article
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Parasitology , Volume 105 , Issue 1 , August 1992 , pp. 35 - 41
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1992

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