Modeling the ecologic niche of plague in sylvan and domestic animal hosts to delineate sources of human exposure in the western United States

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Volumn 2015, Issue 12, 2015, Pages

  Walsh, Michael ^a   Haseeb, M A ^a,b  

^a SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Infection ecology; Landscape epidemiology; Peromyscus maniculatus; Plague; Yersinia pestis; Zoonosis

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; ENTROPY; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; ISOTHERMALITY; LAND USE; MACHINE LEARNING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEASUREMENT ERROR; NONHUMAN; PEROMYSCUS MANICULATUS; PLAGUE; PRECIPITATION; PROBABILITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84951020913     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21678359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7717/peerj.1493     Document Type: Article

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