Development and Assessment of a Geographic Knowledge-Based Model for Mapping Suitable Areas for Rift Valley Fever Transmission in Eastern Africa.

• Main Authors: Annelise Tran (Author), Carlène Trevennec (Author), Julius Lutwama (Author), Joseph Sserugga (Author), Marie Gély (Author), Claudia Pittiglio (Author), Julio Pinto (Author), Véronique Chevalier (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2016-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Rift Valley fever (RVF), a mosquito-borne disease affecting ruminants and humans, is one of the most important viral zoonoses in Africa. The objective of the present study was to develop a geographic knowledge-based method to map the areas suitable for RVF amplification and RVF spread in four East A...