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Spatio-temporal dynamics of dengue in Brazil: seasonal travelling waves and determinants of regional synchrony

View ORCID ProfileMikhail Churakov, Christian J. Villabona-Arenas, Moritz U.G. Kraemer, Henrik Salje, Simon Cauchemez
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/475335
Mikhail Churakov
1Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases Unit, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
2CNRS UMR2000: Génomique évolutive, modélisation et santé (GEMS), Paris, France
3Center of Bioinformatics, Biostatistics and Integrative Biology, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
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Christian J. Villabona-Arenas
4Unité mixte internationale Recherches translationnelles sur le VIH et les maladies infectieuses (TransVIH-MI), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France
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Moritz U.G. Kraemer
5Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
6Computational Epidemiology Lab, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, USA
7Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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Henrik Salje
1Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases Unit, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
2CNRS UMR2000: Génomique évolutive, modélisation et santé (GEMS), Paris, France
3Center of Bioinformatics, Biostatistics and Integrative Biology, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
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Simon Cauchemez
1Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases Unit, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
2CNRS UMR2000: Génomique évolutive, modélisation et santé (GEMS), Paris, France
3Center of Bioinformatics, Biostatistics and Integrative Biology, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
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Abstract

Dengue continues to be the most important vector-borne viral disease globally and in Brazil, where more than 1.4 million cases and over 500 deaths were reported in 2016. Mosquito control programmes and other interventions have not stopped the alarming trend of increasingly large epidemics in the past few years.

Here, we analyzed monthly dengue cases reported in Brazil between 2001 and 2016 to better characterize the key drivers of dengue epidemics. Spatio-temporal analysis revealed recurring travelling waves of disease occurrence. Using wavelet methods, we characterised the average seasonal pattern of dengue in Brazil, which starts in the western states of Acre and Rondônia, then travels eastward to the coast before reaching the northeast of the country. Only two states in the north of Brazil (Roraima and Amapá) did not follow the countrywide pattern and had inconsistent timing of dengue epidemics throughout the study period.

We also explored epidemic synchrony and timing of annual dengue cycles in Brazilian regions. Using gravity style models combined with climate factors, we showed that both human mobility and vector ecology contribute to spatial patterns of dengue occurrence.

This study offers a characterization of the spatial dynamics of dengue in Brazil and its drivers, which could inform intervention strategies against dengue and other arboviruses.

Author summary In this paper we studied the synchronization of dengue epidemics in Brazilian regions. We found that a typical dengue season in Brazil can be described as a wave travelling from the western part of the country towards the east, with the exception of the two most northern equatorial states that experienced inconsistent seasonality of dengue epidemics.

We found that the spatial structure of dengue cases is driven by both climate and human mobility patterns. In particular, precipitation was the most important factor for the seasonality of dengue at finer spatial resolutions.

Our findings increase our understanding of large scale dengue patterns and could be used to enhance national control programs against dengue and other arboviruses.

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Spatio-temporal dynamics of dengue in Brazil: seasonal travelling waves and determinants of regional synchrony
Mikhail Churakov, Christian J. Villabona-Arenas, Moritz U.G. Kraemer, Henrik Salje, Simon Cauchemez
bioRxiv 475335; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/475335
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Spatio-temporal dynamics of dengue in Brazil: seasonal travelling waves and determinants of regional synchrony
Mikhail Churakov, Christian J. Villabona-Arenas, Moritz U.G. Kraemer, Henrik Salje, Simon Cauchemez
bioRxiv 475335; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/475335

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