Temporal-spatial heterogeneity in animal-environment contact: Implications for the exposure and transmission of pathogens

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Chen, Shi ^a   Sanderson, Michael W ^a   White, Brad J ^d   Amrine, David E ^c   Lanzas, Cristina ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^c Kansas State University ^*  (United States)

^d KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BOVINE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMAN; PREVALENCE; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PREVALENCE; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; SPATIO-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84887267839     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep03112     Document Type: Article

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