Assessing human risk of exposure to plague bacteria in northwestern Uganda based on remotely sensed predictors

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 82, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 904-911

  Eisen, Rebecca J ^a   Griffith, Kevin S ^a   Borchert, Jeff N ^a   MacMillan, Katherine ^a   Apangu, Titus ^b   Owor, Nicholas ^b   Acayo, Sara ^b   Acidri, Rogers ^b   Zielinski Gutierrez, Emily ^a   Winters, Anna M ^a   Enscore, Russell E ^a   Schriefer, Martin E ^a   Beard, Charles B ^a   Gage, Kenneth L ^a   Mead, Paul S ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b UGANDA VIRUS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Uganda)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HUMAN; LANDSCAPE; PLAGUE; RISK FACTOR; RURAL AREA; UGANDA; YERSINIA PESTIS;

AREA UNDER CURVE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; PLAGUE; RISK FACTORS; ROC CURVE; UGANDA; YERSINIA PESTIS;

SIPHONAPTERA (FLEAS); YERSINIA PESTIS;

EID: 77952678650     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2010.09-0737     Document Type: Article

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