Predicting Rift Valley Fever Inter-epidemic Activities and Outbreak Patterns: Insights from a Stochastic Host-Vector Model

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 2016, Pages

  Pedro, Sansao A ^a,b,c   Abelman, Shirley ^a   Tonnang, Henri E Z ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b INTERNATIONAL CENTRE OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY ICIPE   (Kenya)

^c EDUARDO MONDLANE UNIVERSITY   (Mozambique)

^d WORLD AGROFORESTRY CENTRE ICRAF   (Kenya)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL ACCIDENT; DISEASE CARRIER; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; PROBABILITY; RIFT VALLEY FEVER; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; AEDES; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; KENYA; MARKOV CHAIN; MOSQUITO VECTOR; RIFT VALLEY FEVER VIRUS; SEASON; SOUTH AFRICA; TANZANIA; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRANSMISSION; VIROLOGY;

RAIN;

AEDES; AFRICA, EASTERN; ANIMALS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; EPIDEMICS; HUMANS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; KENYA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOSQUITO VECTORS; RAIN; RIFT VALLEY FEVER; RIFT VALLEY FEVER VIRUS; SEASONS; SOUTH AFRICA; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; TANZANIA;

EID: 85008601889     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0005167     Document Type: Article

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