ArticlePloS one2014
Mapping transmission risk of Lassa fever in West Africa: the importance of quality control, sampling bias, and error weighting.
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- Bridging the gap: Using reservoir ecology and human serosurveys to estimate Lassa virus spillover in West Africa.PLoS computational biology · 2021Article
- Systematics, Ecology, and Host Switching: Attributes Affecting Emergence of the Lassa Virus in Rodents across Western Africa.Viruses · 2020Review
- Potential distributions of Bacillus anthracis and Bacillus cereus biovar anthracis causing anthrax in Africa.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2020Article
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- Hemorrhagic Fever-Causing Arenaviruses: Lethal Pathogens and Potent Immune Suppressors.Frontiers in immunology · 2019Review
- Translating Predictions of Zoonotic Viruses for Policymakers.EcoHealth · 2018Article
- Alphavirus vector-based replicon particles expressing multivalent cross-protective Lassa virus glycoproteins.Vaccine · 2018Article
- Understanding the cryptic nature of Lassa fever in West Africa.Pathogens and global health · 2017Review
- Ecological niche modeling to determine potential niche of Vaccinia virus: a case only study.International journal of health geographics · 2017Article
- Annual Incidence of Lassa Virus Infection in Southern Mali.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2017Article
- Novel Methods in Disease Biogeography: A Case Study with Heterosporosis.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2017Article
- Global Patterns of Zoonotic Disease in Mammals.Trends in parasitology · 2016Review
- Lassa Virus Seroprevalence in Sibirilia Commune, Bougouni District, Southern Mali.Emerging infectious diseases · 2016Article
- Advances and Limitations of Disease Biogeography Using Ecological Niche Modeling.Frontiers in microbiology · 2016Review
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Abstract
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 Lassa virus infection remain poorly known at the level of the broader region. In this paper, we explored the effects of certainty of diagnosis, oversampling in well-studied region, and error balance on results of mapping exercises. Each of the three factors assessed in this study had clear and consistent influences on model results, overestimating risk in southern, humid zones in West Africa, and underestimating risk in drier and more northern areas. The final, adjusted risk map indicates broad risk areas across much of West Africa. Although risk maps are increasingly easy to develop from disease occurrence data and raster data sets summarizing aspects of environments and landscapes, this process is highly sensitive to issues of data quality, sampling design, and design of analysis, with macrogeographic implications of each of these issues and the potential for misrepresenting real patterns of risk.
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