Spatiotemporal environmental triggers of Ebola and Marburg virus transmission

Geocarto International

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 451-466

  Lash, R Ryan ^a   Brunsell, Nathaniel A ^a   Peterson, A Townsend ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Disease ecology; Ebola virus; NDVI; Temporal analysis; Wavelet analysis

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; DISEASES; ECOLOGY; HUMAN ENGINEERING; REMOTE SENSING; VIRUSES; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

DETECTION METHOD; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; NDVI; POPULATION OUTBREAK; REMOTE SENSING; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

AFRICA;

EBOLA VIRUS; FILOVIRIDAE; LAKE VICTORIA MARBURGVIRUS; MARBURGVIRUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 54049086945     PISSN: 10106049     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10106040802121010     Document Type: Article

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