Mapping the Potential Risk of Mycetoma Infection in Sudan and South Sudan Using Ecological Niche Modeling

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2014, Pages

  Samy, Abdallah M ^a,b   van de Sande, Wendy W J ^c   Fahal, Ahmed Hassan ^d   Peterson, A Townsend ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b AIN SHAMS UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^c ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KHARTOUM   (Sudan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACACIA; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; MYCETOMA; NONHUMAN; PUBLICATION; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; SOIL ANALYSIS; SUDAN; TEMPERATURE; ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENT; GEOGRAPHY; MICROBIOLOGY; NEGLECTED DISEASES; SOUTH SUDAN; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ACACIA; ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENT; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MYCETOMA; NEGLECTED DISEASES; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SOUTH SUDAN; SUDAN;

EID: 84920517166     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0003250     Document Type: Article

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