Mapping disease transmission risk of Nipah virus in South and Southeast Asia

Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2018, Pages

  Deka, Mark A ^a   Morshed, Niaz ^a  

^a TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

BIOMOD2; Disease biogeography; Ecological niche modeling; ENMeval; Infectious disease cartography; Nipah virus; Risk mapping

Indexed keywords

EID: 85063011068     PISSN: None     EISSN: 24146366     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/tropicalmed3020057     Document Type: Article

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