Modeling disease vector occurrence when detection is imperfect: infestation of Amazonian palm trees by triatomine bugs at three spatial scales.

• Main Authors: Fernando Abad-Franch (Author), Gonçalo Ferraz (Author), Ciro Campos (Author), Francisco S Palomeque (Author), Mario J Grijalva (Author), H Marcelo Aguilar (Author), Michael A Miles (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BACKGROUND: Failure to detect a disease agent or vector where it actually occurs constitutes a serious drawback in epidemiology. In the pervasive situation where no sampling technique is perfect, the explicit analytical treatment of detection failure becomes a key step in the estimation of epidemiol...