Combining Hydrology and Mosquito Population Models to Identify the Drivers of Rift Valley Fever Emergence in Semi-Arid Regions of West Africa

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Soti, Valérie ^a,b   Tran, Annelise ^a,b   Degenne, Pascal ^b   Chevalier, Véronique ^a   Lo Seen, Danny ^b   Thiongane, Yaya ^c   Diallo, Mawlouth ^d   Guégan, Jean François ^e,f   Fontenille, Didier ^e  

^a CIRAD   (France)

^b UMR TETIS   (France)

^c ISRA LNERV   (Senegal)

^d INSTITUT PASTEUR DE DAKAR   (Senegal)

^e INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^f EHESP   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

AEDES; AFRICA; ARTICLE; BASIC REPRODUCTION NUMBER; BREEDING; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CULEX; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EPIDEMIC; HATCHING; HYDROLOGIC MODEL; LIFE CYCLE; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; MODEL; MORTALITY; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; POPULATION MODEL; RIFT VALLEY FEVER; SEMIARID CLIMATE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; VALIDATION PROCESS; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ZOOLOGY;

AEDES; AFRICA, WESTERN; ANIMALS; CULEX; DESERT CLIMATE; FEMALE; HUMANS; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RIFT VALLEY FEVER; WEATHER; ZOONOSES;

EID: 84866001501     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0001795     Document Type: Article

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