Spatial and temporal patterns of chronic wasting disease: Fine-scale mapping of a wildlife epidemic in Wisconsin

Ecological Applications

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1311-1322

  Osnas, Erik E ^a,d   Heisey, Dennis M ^b   Rolley, Robert E ^c   Samuel, Michael D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b NATIONAL WILDLIFE HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^c WISCONSIN DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (United States)

^d PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Age prevalence; Chronic wasting disease; CWD; Direct standardization; Disease mapping; Emerging disease; Epidemiology; Hierarchical Bayesian model; Odocoileus virginianus; Prion; Space time interaction; White tailed deer

Indexed keywords

AGE CLASS; DEER; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE PREVALENCE; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGY; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; MORTALITY; POLICY MAKING; PRION DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STANDARDIZATION; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

AGE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE; DEER; ECOSYSTEM; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; MALE; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; UNITED STATES;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; DEER; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; WASTING DISEASE, CHRONIC; WISCONSIN;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WISCONSIN;

ANIMALIA; CERVIDAE; ODOCOILEUS VIRGINIANUS;

EID: 68149129688     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/08-0578.1     Document Type: Article

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