Waterborne, abiotic and other indirectly transmitted (W.A.I.T.) infections are defined by the dynamics of free-living pathogens and environmental reservoirs
Miles D. Miller-Dickson, Victor A. Meszaros, Francis Baffour-Awuah, Salvador Almagro‐Moreno, C. Brandon Ogbunugafor
The paper develops a mathematical framework to model waterborne and indirectly transmitted infections and applies it to cholera and hepatitis C to show the importance of environmental reservoir dynamics.
bioRxiv · May 13, 2019 · PreprintSystems Biology