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

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...

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Main Authors: Kevin Carolan, Andres Garchitorena, Gabriel E García-Peña, Aaron Morris, Jordi Landier, Arnaud Fontanet, Philippe Le Gall, Gaëtan Texier, Laurent Marsollier, Rodolphe E Gozlan, Sara Eyangoh, Danny Lo Seen, Jean-Francois Guégan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4222759?pdf=render