id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-287133-2mldz987 Viana, Mafalda Assembling evidence for identifying reservoirs of infection 2014-05-17 .txt text/plain 6488 305 37 Our central thesis is that interventions that are meticulously planned to optimise both the immediate short-term benefits to the target population and the longer-term understanding of how reservoirs function, applied together with a formal integration of data and methods [13] , can provide powerful new opportunities for studying complex multihost systems (e.g., [14] ). Trends in Ecology & Evolution May 2014, Vol. 29, No. 5 Target populations in which limited transmission can occur but R 0,T <1 will, when the force of infection from the source is low, exhibit the classic 'stuttering chain' dynamics ( Figure 1 , zone C) in which outbreak sizes follow an overdispersed distribution [16] . Although still in early stages of development, advanced modelling techniques, such as Bayesian process models, can enable inferences of timing of exposure from ageseroprevalence data, accounting for non-stationary epidemiological dynamics [26] , and/or detect cross-species transmission [27] , to identify which host species is the most likely source of infection. ./cache/cord-287133-2mldz987.txt ./txt/cord-287133-2mldz987.txt