Spatial Heterogeneity of Habitat Suitability for Rift Valley Fever Occurrence in Tanzania: An Ecological Niche Modelling Approach

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2016, Pages

  Sindato, Calvin ^a,b,c   Stevens, Kim B ^d   Karimuribo, Esron D ^b,c   Mboera, Leonard E G ^a   Paweska, Janusz T ^e,f   Pfeiffer, Dirk U ^d  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Tanzania)

^b SOKOINE UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Tanzania)

^c Southern African Centre for Infectious Disease Surveillance   (Tanzania)

^d ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNICABLE DISEASES   (South Africa)

^f UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; NONHUMAN; PROBABILITY; RIFT VALLEY FEVER; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TANZANIA;

EID: 84992108954     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0005002     Document Type: Article

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