Combining hydrology and mosquito population models to identify the drivers of Rift Valley fever emergence in semi-arid regions of West Africa.

• Main Authors: Valérie Soti (Author), Annelise Tran (Author), Pascal Degenne (Author), Véronique Chevalier (Author), Danny Lo Seen (Author), Yaya Thiongane (Author), Mawlouth Diallo (Author), Jean-François Guégan (Author), Didier Fontenille (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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BACKGROUND: Rift Valley fever (RVF) is a vector-borne viral zoonosis of increasing global importance. RVF virus (RVFV) is transmitted either through exposure to infected animals or through bites from different species of infected mosquitoes, mainly of Aedes and Culex genera. These mosquitoes are ver...