A curve of thresholds governs plague epizootics in Central Asia

Ecology Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 554-560

  Reijniers, Jonas ^a   Davis, Stephen ^b   Begon, Mike ^c   Heesterbeek, Johan A P ^d   Ageyev, Vladimir S ^e   Leirs, Herwig ^a,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^d UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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

^f Danish Pest Infestation Laboratory   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Flea; Gerbil; Infection ecology; Plague; Spatial epidemiology; Threshold; Vector borne disease

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BACTERIAL DISEASE; DISEASE VECTOR; EPIDEMIOLOGY; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; INVERTEBRATE; RODENT;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FLEA; KAZAKHSTAN; MICROBIOLOGY; MURIDAE; PARASITOLOGY; PLAGUE; YERSINIA PESTIS;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INSECT VECTORS; KAZAKHSTAN; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MURIDAE; PLAGUE; SIPHONAPTERA; YERSINIA PESTIS;

CENTRAL ASIA;

GERBILLINAE; INVERTEBRATA; RHOMBOMYS OPIMUS; SIPHONAPTERA (FLEAS); XENOPSYLLA; YERSINIA PESTIS;

EID: 84860650350     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2012.01767.x     Document Type: Article

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