Ecology and geography of human monkeypox case occurrences across Africa

Journal of Wildlife Diseases

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 335-347

  Ellis, Christine K ^a   Carroll, Darin S ^b   Lash, Ryan R ^b   Townsend Peterson, A ^c   Damon, Inger K ^b   Malekani, Jean ^d   Formenty, Pierre ^e  

^a NATIONAL WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KINSHASA   (Congo)

^e WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Ecologic niche modeling; Epidemiology; Georeferencing; Monkeypox; Pointradius method

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859567674     PISSN: 00903558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7589/0090-3558-48.2.335     Document Type: Article

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