Mapping transmission risk of Lassa fever in West Africa: the importance of quality control, sampling bias, and error weighting.

Lassa fever is a disease that has been reported from sites across West Africa; it is caused by an arenavirus that is hosted by the rodent M. natalensis. Although it is confined to West Africa, and has been documented in detail in some well-studied areas, the details of the distribution of risk of La...

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Main Authors: A Townsend Peterson, Lina M Moses, Daniel G Bausch
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4126660?pdf=render