Spatial Analysis of Anthropogenic Landscape Disturbance and Buruli Ulcer Disease in Benin.

• Main Authors: Lindsay P Campbell (Author), Andrew O Finley (Author), M Eric Benbow (Author), Jenni Gronseth (Author), Pamela Small (Author), Roch Christian Johnson (Author), Ghislain E Sopoh (Author), Richard M Merritt (Author), Heather Williamson (Author), Jiaguo Qi (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
• Online Access: Connect to this object online.

Land use and land cover (LULC) change is one anthropogenic disturbance linked to infectious disease emergence. Current research has focused largely on wildlife and vector-borne zoonotic diseases, neglecting to investigate landscape disturbance and environmental bacterial infections. One example is B...