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| Title |
Mapping Monkeypox Transmission Risk through Time and Space in the Congo Basin
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| Published in |
PLOS ONE, September 2013
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| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0074816 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Yoshinori Nakazawa, R. Ryan Lash, Darin S. Carroll, Inger K. Damon, Kevin L. Karem, Mary G. Reynolds, Jorge E. Osorio, Tonie E. Rocke, Jean M. Malekani, Jean-Jacques Muyembe, Pierre Formenty, A. Townsend Peterson |
| Abstract |
Monkeypox is a major public health concern in the Congo Basin area, with changing patterns of human case occurrences reported in recent years. Whether this trend results from better surveillance and detection methods, reduced proportions of vaccinated vs. non-vaccinated human populations, or changing environmental conditions remains unclear. Our objective is to examine potential correlations between environment and transmission of monkeypox events in the Congo Basin. We created ecological niche models based on human cases reported in the Congo Basin by the World Health Organization at the end of the smallpox eradication campaign, in relation to remotely-sensed Normalized Difference Vegetation Index datasets from the same time period. These models predicted independent spatial subsets of monkeypox occurrences with high confidence; models were then projected onto parallel environmental datasets for the 2000s to create present-day monkeypox suitability maps. Recent trends in human monkeypox infection are associated with broad environmental changes across the Congo Basin. Our results demonstrate that ecological niche models provide useful tools for identification of areas suitable for transmission, even for poorly-known diseases like monkeypox. |
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The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 108 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | <1% |
| Denmark | 1 | <1% |
| Germany | 1 | <1% |
| Italy | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 104 | 96% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 18 | 17% |
| Student > Master | 16 | 15% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 14 | 13% |
| Student > Bachelor | 7 | 6% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 7 | 6% |
| Other | 13 | 12% |
| Unknown | 33 | 31% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 31 | 29% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 12 | 11% |
| Environmental Science | 5 | 5% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 4 | 4% |
| Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine | 3 | 3% |
| Other | 13 | 12% |
| Unknown | 40 | 37% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 18 August 2014.
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#7,188,849
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#85,122
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#63,431
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#1,995
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