Advances and limitations of disease biogeography using ecological niche modeling

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 7, Issue AUG, 2016, Pages

  Escobar, Luis E ^a,b   Craft, Meggan E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fundamental niche; Infectious disease; Prediction; Risk map; Spatial epidemiology

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; CHOLERA; CLIMATE CHANGE; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE SIMULATION; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; NONHUMAN; ORGANISMS BY GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TRYPANOSOMIASIS;

EID: 84988805233     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.01174     Document Type: Review

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