Site-occupancy modelling as a novel framework for assessing test sensitivity and estimating wildlife disease prevalence from imperfect diagnostic tests

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 339-348

  Lachish, Shelly ^a   Gopalaswamy, Arjun M ^a,b,c   Knowles, Sarah C L ^a,d   Sheldon, Ben C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b Wildlife Conservation Society India   (India)

^c Centre for Wildlife Studies   (India)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cyanistes caeruleus; Imperfect diagnostic tests; Pathogen detection; Pathogen load; Plasmodium; Population prevalence; QPCR; Site occupancy modelling; Test sensitivity; Wildlife disease

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865054495     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2041210X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.2041-210X.2011.00156.x     Document Type: Article

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