Mayaro virus infection in amazonia: a multimodel inference approach to risk factor assessment.

• Main Authors: Fernando Abad-Franch (Author), Gustavo H Grimmer (Author), Vanessa S de Paula (Author), Luiz T M Figueiredo (Author), Wornei S M Braga (Author), Sérgio L B Luz (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BACKGROUND: Arboviral diseases are major global public health threats. Yet, our understanding of infection risk factors is, with a few exceptions, considerably limited. A crucial shortcoming is the widespread use of analytical methods generally not suited for observational data--particularly null hy...