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. 2016 Sep 4;109(6):2317–2328. doi: 10.1093/jee/tow196

Table 3.

Risk indicators for passengers with Mediterranean fruit fly departing from airport locations infested with Mediterranean fruit fly and arriving at specific airports in Florida and California in 2010

IATA airport codea
Seasonal risk of Mediterranean fruit fly at a departing flight locationb
Estimated passenger no.c
Annual risk indicator AORIijkd
Origin Destination Jan.–April May–Aug. Sept.–Dec. Jan.–April May–Aug. Sept.–Dec. Total
Florida
GRU MIA 1.0 1.0 1.0 111,695 114,978 114,051 340,724 1.00
CCS MIA 1.0 1.0 1.0 110,849 111,948 109,710 332,507 1.00
LIM MIA 1.0 1.0 0.6 84,997 97,832 56,062 276,265 0.86
EZE MIA 1.0 1.0 1.0 88,575 99,461 71,352 259,388 1.00
BOG MIA 1.0 1.0 1.0 82,020 84,996 85,961 252,977 1.00
BOG FLL 1.0 1.0 1.0 39,061 41,823 37,168 118,052 1.00
SJO FLL 1.0 1.0 0.6 18,393 19,572 5,849 47,714 0.92
MDE FLL 1.0 0.6 0.6 12,376 7,808 5,570 34,672 0.74
PTY MCO 1.0 1.0 1.0 28,171 28,922 29,402 86,495 1.00
GRU MCO 1.0 1.0 1.0 20,483 22,690 21,982 65,155 1.00
BOG MCO 1.0 1.0 1.0 14,022 14,863 13,125 42,010 1.00
California
CDG LAX 0.2 1.0 0.6 14,845 114,555 60,519 289,648 0.66
SAL LAX 1.0 1.0 0.6 50,374 64,136 32,617 168,872 0.87
LIM LAX 1.0 1.0 0.6 35,331 38,023 23,272 112,141 0.86
CDG SFO 0.2 1.0 0.6 5,674 49,061 20,902 112,270 0.67
SAL SFO 1.0 1.0 0.6 14,271 19,474 8,820 48,446 0.88
ZRH SFO 0.2 0.6 0.2 0 9,603 3,945 35,733 0.38

a International Air Transport Association (IATA) airport codes: GRU (Brazil), CCS (Venezuela), LIM (Peru), EZE (Argentina), BOG (Colombia), SJO (Costa Rica), MDE (Colombia), PTY (Panama), CDG (France), SAL (El Salvador), ZRH (Switzerland), MIA (Miami), FLL (Fort Lauderdale), MCO (Orlando), LAX (Los Angeles), and SFO (San Francisco). Origin–destination airports were selected based on the highest number of passengers arriving to Florida and California.

b The seasonal risk of Mediterranean fruit fly abundance at departing flight locations was derived from the Mediterranean fruit fly environmental suitability model (Szyniszewska and Tatem 2014) and classified as high (1.0), medium (0.6), or low (0.2).

c The estimated seasonal number of passengers departing on direct flights from international airports in Mediterranean fruit fly-infested countries and arriving in Florida and California was derived from the open-access passenger flow model for 2010, Vbd-air.com (Mao et al. 2015).

d The annual risk indicators for paired origin–destination airports (AORIijk) were derived by multiplying the risk of Mediterranean fruit fly occurring at the departing flight location (low = 0.2, medium = 0.6, and high = 1.0) in each season by the estimated number of passengers on the route and dividing the product by the total number of seasonal passengers on the route. Higher AORIijk scores indicate greater annual risk of Mediterranean fruit fly arrival relative to the total estimated number of passengers.