Potential corridors and barriers for plague spread in central Asia

International Journal of Health Geographics

Volumn 12, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Wilschut, Liesbeth I ^a   Addink, Elisabeth A ^a   Heesterbeek, Hans ^a   Heier, Lise ^b   Laudisoit, Anne ^c,d   Begon, Mike ^c   Davis, Stephen ^e   Dubyanskiy, Vladimir M ^f,g   Burdelov, Leonid A ^f   De Jong, Steven M ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^e RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^f M Aikimbayev's Kazakh Scientific Centre for Quarantine and Zoonotic Diseases   (Kazakhstan)

^g Stavropol Plague Control Research Institute   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Bubonic plague; Disease ecology; GIS; Infectious disease; Landscape configuration; Landscape epidemiology; Multiple regression; Persistence; Remote sensing; Steppe

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; DISEASE PREVALENCE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE SPREAD; DISEASE VECTOR; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FUTURE PROSPECT; GIS; HEALTH GEOGRAPHY; MAPPING; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; RASTER; REMOTE SENSING; RODENT; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

CENTRAL ASIA;

RHOMBOMYS OPIMUS; RODENTIA; SIPHONAPTERA (FLEAS); YERSINIA PESTIS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ASIA; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; GEOGRAPHIC MAPPING; GERBIL; HUMAN; MICROBIOLOGY; PLAGUE; YERSINIA PESTIS;

ANIMALS; ASIA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; GEOGRAPHIC MAPPING; GERBILLINAE; HUMANS; PLAGUE; YERSINIA PESTIS;

EID: 84886741114     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1476072X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-072X-12-49     Document Type: Article

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