Topography and land cover of watersheds predicts the distribution of the environmental pathogen Mycobacterium ulcerans in aquatic insects.

• मुख्य लेखकों: Kevin Carolan (लेखक), Andres Garchitorena (लेखक), Gabriel E García-Peña (लेखक), Aaron Morris (लेखक), Jordi Landier (लेखक), Arnaud Fontanet (लेखक), Philippe Le Gall (लेखक), Gaëtan Texier (लेखक), Laurent Marsollier (लेखक), Rodolphe E Gozlan (लेखक), Sara Eyangoh (लेखक), Danny Lo Seen (लेखक), Jean-Francois Guégan (लेखक)
• स्वरूप: पुस्तक
• प्रकाशित: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• विषय: article
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An understanding of the factors driving the distribution of pathogens is useful in preventing disease. Often we achieve this understanding at a local microhabitat scale; however the larger scale processes are often neglected. This can result in misleading inferences about the distribution of the pat...