Emergence, spread, persistence and fade-out of sylvatic plague in Kazakhstan

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 278, Issue 1720, 2011, Pages 2915-2923

  Heier, Lise ^a   Storvik, Geir O ^a   Davis, Stephen A ^b   Viljugrein, Hildegunn ^a,c   Ageyev, Vladimir S ^d   Klassovskaya, Evgeniya ^e   Stenseth, Nils Chr ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c NORWEGIAN VETERINARY INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^d Masgut Aikimbayev National Scientific Center for Especially Dangerous Infections of the Ministry of Healthcare of the Republic of Kazakhstan   (Kazakhstan)

^e Taldykorgan Plague Control Station   (Kazakhstan)

Author keywords

Bayesian imputation; Great gerbil; Space time dynamics; Spatial correlation; Yersinia pestis

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AUTOCORRELATION; BACTERIAL DISEASE; BACTERIUM; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; DATA SET; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE PREVALENCE; DISEASE SPREAD; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; INVASIBILITY; PERSISTENCE; PROBABILITY; RODENT; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

KAZAKHSTAN;

RHOMBOMYS OPIMUS; RODENTIA; YERSINIA PESTIS;

EID: 80052235985     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.2614     Document Type: Article

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