Identification of Chinese plague foci from long-term epidemiological data

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 21, 2012, Pages 8196-8201

  Ben Ari, Tamara ^a,b,f   Neerinckx, Simon ^a   Agier, Lydiane ^a   Cazelles, Bernard ^b,c   Xu, Lei ^d   Zhang, Zhibin ^d   Fang, Xiye ^e   Wang, Shuchun ^e   Liu, Qiyong ^e   Stenseth, Nils C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^d INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^e CHINESE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

^f CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

Ecological niche modeling; Plague dynamics; Wavelet analysis; Yersinia pestis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHINESE; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PLAGUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; YERSINIA PESTIS;

CHINA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; ECOSYSTEM; EPIDEMICS; HISTORY, 18TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; PLAGUE; WAVELET ANALYSIS; YERSINIA PESTIS;

YERSINIA PESTIS;

EID: 84861421208     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1110585109     Document Type: Article

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