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. 2014 Mar 26;9(3):e91724. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0091724

Table 1. Disease transmission routes in the model.

Movement spread* Non-movement spread
Within-county Local cross-border
Cause Animal Shipments Aerosol, fence-line contact, or fomite transmission Aerosol, fence-line contact, or fomite transmission
Spatial Scale All counties in the US Premises within an infected county All neighboring counties
Assumptions 1) Premises density-dependent; 2)Spatially explicit; 3)Differs by state and production type 1) Premises density-dependent; 2)Premises size dependent 1) Premises density-dependent; 2)Premises size dependent; 3) Spatially implicit§
Informed by or data from 1) ICVI records; 2) Number of premises by county and production type; 3) State cattle inflows [38] 1) 2001 UK FMD outbreak [39]; 2) US premises density and size distributions 1) 2001 UK FMD outbreak [39]; 2) US premises density and size distributions ; 3) Shared county border length
Parameter Uncertainty Estimated through Bayesian inference and incorporated in the simulations via multiple realizations of shipment networks. Broad parameter ranges explored in a sensitivity analysis||. Broad parameter ranges explored in a sensitivity analysis||.

*See Section C in Text S1 and Lindström et al. [24].

Based on county centroids.

In both the focal and neighboring counties.

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Based on randomly distributed premises in the focal and neighboring counties.

See Section B in Text S1 and NASS census data [15].

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See Section E in Text S1.