First assessment for the presence of phlebotomine vectors in bavaria, southern germany, by combined distribution modeling and field surveys

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Haeberlein, Simone ^a,c   Fischer, Dominik ^b   Thomas, Stephanie Margarete ^b   Schleicher, Ulrike ^a   Beierkuhnlein, Carl ^b   Bogdan, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISPERSAL; CLASSIFICATION; CLIMATE; DISEASE CARRIER; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; FORECASTING; GERMANY; HUMAN; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIASIS, VISCERAL; PHLEBOTOMUS; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TEMPERATURE; TRANSMISSION;

ANIMAL DISTRIBUTION; ANIMALS; CLIMATE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; FORECASTING; GERMANY; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIASIS, VISCERAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHLEBOTOMUS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84894036976     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0081088     Document Type: Article

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