BibTex format
@article{Pigott:2014:10.7554/elife.02851,
author = {Pigott, DM and Bhatt, S and Golding, N and Duda, KA and Battle, KE and Brady, OJ and Messina, JP and Balard, Y and Bastien, P and Pratlong, F and Brownstein, JS and Freifeld, CC and Mekaru, SR and Gething, PW and George, DB and Myers, MF and Reithinger, R and Hay, SI},
doi = {10.7554/elife.02851},
journal = {Elife},
title = {Global distribution maps of the Leishmaniases},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/elife.02851},
volume = {2014},
year = {2014}
}
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TY - JOUR
AB - The leishmaniases are vector-borne diseases that have a broad global distribution throughout much of the Americas, Africa, and Asia. Despite representing a significant public health burden, our understanding of the global distribution of the leishmaniases remains vague, reliant upon expert opinion and limited to poor spatial resolution. A global assessment of the consensus of evidence for leishmaniasis was performed at a sub-national level by aggregating information from a variety of sources. A database of records of cutaneous and visceral leishmaniasis occurrence was compiled from published literature, online reports, strain archives, and GenBank accessions. These, with a suite of biologically relevant environmental covariates, were used in a boosted regression tree modelling framework to generate global environmental risk maps for the leishmaniases. These high-resolution evidence-based maps can help direct future surveillance activities, identify areas to target for disease control and inform future burden estimation efforts.
AU - Pigott,DM
AU - Bhatt,S
AU - Golding,N
AU - Duda,KA
AU - Battle,KE
AU - Brady,OJ
AU - Messina,JP
AU - Balard,Y
AU - Bastien,P
AU - Pratlong,F
AU - Brownstein,JS
AU - Freifeld,CC
AU - Mekaru,SR
AU - Gething,PW
AU - George,DB
AU - Myers,MF
AU - Reithinger,R
AU - Hay,SI
DO - 10.7554/elife.02851
PY - 2014///
TI - Global distribution maps of the Leishmaniases
T2 - Elife
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/elife.02851
VL - 2014
ER -