Mapping transmission risk of lassa fever in West Africa: The importance of quality control, sampling bias, and error weighting

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2014, Pages

  Townsend Peterson, A ^a   Moses, Lina M ^b   Bausch, Daniel G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHIC MAPPING; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; LANDSCAPE; LASSA FEVER; QUALITY CONTROL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAMPLING BIAS; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

EID: 84905659595     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0100711     Document Type: Article

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