Symposium 17. How Does Having a Vector Matter?

摘要

The theme of this year’s ESA meeting was “ecological knowledge and a global sustainable society.”Wildlife, domestic animal, and human health are all essential concerns for building a global sustainablesociety, and vector-borne pathogens are of particular interest because they provide one of the clearestexamples of how environment influences disease patterns, and therefore, how ecological understandingcan contribute to public health policy. The goal of this symposium was to emphasize important generalities,differences, and gaps in knowledge across host–vector–pathogen systems, and to highlight avenues forreconciling models and data to produce quantitative frameworks for vector-borne disease control.