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Modeling Disease Vector Occurrence when Detection Is Imperfect: Infestation of Amazonian Palm Trees by Triatomine Bugs at Three Spatial Scales

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...

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Autores principales: Abad-Franch, Fernando, Ferraz, Gonçalo, Campos, Ciro, Palomeque, Francisco S., Grijalva, Mario J., Aguilar, H. Marcelo, Miles, Michael A.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2830460/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20209149
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0000620