Quantifying the seasonal drivers of transmission for Lassa fever in Nigeria

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 374, Issue 1775, 2019, Pages

  Akhmetzhanov, Andrei R ^a   Asai, Yusuke ^a   Nishiura, Hiroshi ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arenaviridae; Lassa haemorrhagic fever; Multimammate rat; Reservoir host; Seasonality

Indexed keywords

BREEDING SEASON; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH RISK; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; NUMERICAL MODEL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RODENT; SEASONALITY; VIRAL DISEASE;

NIGERIA;

ANIMALIA; ARENAVIRIDAE; MASTOMYS; RODENTIA;

ANIMAL; HUMAN; LASSA FEVER; LASSA VIRUS; NIGERIA; PHYSIOLOGY; RODENT; RODENT DISEASE; SEASON; THEORETICAL MODEL; VETERINARY MEDICINE; VIROLOGY; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; LASSA FEVER; LASSA VIRUS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NIGERIA; RODENT DISEASES; RODENTIA; SEASONS; ZOONOSES;

EID: 85065450999     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2018.0268     Document Type: Article

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