Predicting Rift Valley Fever Inter-epidemic Activities and Outbreak Patterns: Insights from a Stochastic Host-Vector Model.

• Main Authors: Sansao A Pedro (Author), Shirley Abelman (Author), Henri E Z Tonnang (Author)
• Formato: Libro
• Publicado: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2016-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Rift Valley fever (RVF) outbreaks are recurrent, occurring at irregular intervals of up to 15 years at least in East Africa. Between outbreaks disease inter-epidemic activities exist and occur at low levels and are maintained by female Aedes mcintoshi mosquitoes which transmit the virus to their egg...