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SUBMITTER: Thomassen HA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3729955 | biostudies-literature | 2013
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Thomassen Henri A HA Fuller Trevon T Asefi-Najafabady Salvi S Shiplacoff Julia A G JA Mulembakani Prime M PM Blumberg Seth S Johnston Sara C SC Kisalu Neville K NK Kinkela Timothée L TL Fair Joseph N JN Wolfe Nathan D ND Shongo Robert L RL LeBreton Matthew M Meyer Hermann H Wright Linda L LL Muyembe Jean-Jacques JJ Buermann Wolfgang W Okitolonda Emile E Hensley Lisa E LE Lloyd-Smith James O JO Smith Thomas B TB Rimoin Anne W AW
PloS one 20130731 7
Climate change is predicted to result in changes in the geographic ranges and local prevalence of infectious diseases, either through direct effects on the pathogen, or indirectly through range shifts in vector and reservoir species. To better understand the occurrence of monkeypox virus (MPXV), an emerging Orthopoxvirus in humans, under contemporary and future climate conditions, we used ecological niche modeling techniques in conjunction with climate and remote-sensing variables. We first crea ...[more]