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

• Main Authors: Kevin Carolan (Author), Andres Garchitorena (Author), Gabriel E García-Peña (Author), Aaron Morris (Author), Jordi Landier (Author), Arnaud Fontanet (Author), Philippe Le Gall (Author), Gaëtan Texier (Author), Laurent Marsollier (Author), Rodolphe E Gozlan (Author), Sara Eyangoh (Author), Danny Lo Seen (Author), Jean-Francois Guégan (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: 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...