Gage KL, Kosoy MY, 2005. Natural history of plague: perspectives from more than a century of research. Annu Rev Entomol 50: 505ā 528.
Eisen RJ, Gage KL, 2009. Adaptive strategies of Yersinia pestis to persist during inter-epizootic and epizootic periods. Vet Res 40: 1.
Dennis DT, Chow CC, 2004. Plague. Pediatr Infect Dis J 23: 69ā 71.
Crook LD, Tempest B, 1992. Plague. A clinical review of 27 cases. Arch Intern Med 152: 1253ā 1256.
Poland JD, Dennis DT, 1999. Diagnosis and clinical manifestations. Plague Manual: Epidemiology, Distribution, Surveillance and Control. Geneva: World Health Organization, 43ā 54.
Neerinckx S, Bertherat E, Leirs H, 2010. Human plague occurrences in Africa: an overview from 1877 to 2008. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 104: 97ā 103.
Neerinckx SB, Peterson AT, Gulinck H, Deckers J, Leirs H, 2008. Geographic distribution and ecological niche of plague in sub-Saharan Africa. Int J Health Geogr 7: 54.
WHO, 2005. Outbreak news index 2005. Wkly Epidemiol Rec 80: 433ā 440.
WHO, 2009. Human plague: review of regional morbidity and mortality, 2004ā2009. Wkly Epidemiol Rec 85: 40ā 45.
Kilonzo BS, 1999. Plague epidemiology and control in eastern and southern Africa during the period 1978 to 1997. Cent Afr J Med 45: 70ā 76.
Eisen RJ, Griffith KS, Borchert JN, MacMillan K, Apangu T, Owor N, Acayo S, Acidri R, Zielinski-Gutierrez E, Winters AM, Enscore RE, Schriefer ME, Beard CB, Gage KL, Mead PS, 2010. Assessing human risk of exposure to plague bacteria in northwestern Uganda based on remotely sensed predictors. Am J Trop Med Hyg 82: 904ā 911.
Winters AM, Staples JE, Ogen-Odoi A, Mead PS, Griffith K, Owor N, Babi N, Enscore RE, Eisen L, Gage KL, Eisen RJ, 2009. Spatial risk models for human plague in the West Nile region of Uganda. Am J Trop Med Hyg 80: 1014ā 1022.
MacMillan K, Enscore RE, Ogen-Odoi A, Borchert JN, Babi N, Amatre G, Atiku LA, Mead PS, Gage KL, Eisen RJ, 2011. Landscape and residential variables associated with plague-endemic villages in the West Nile region of Uganda. Am J Trop Med Hyg 84: 435ā 442.
Eisen RJ, Borchert JN, Holmes JL, Amatre G, Van Wyk K, Enscore RE, Babi N, Atiku LA, Wilder AP, Vetter SM, Bearden SW, Montenieri JA, Gage KL, 2008. Early-phase transmission of Yersinia pestis by cat fleas (Ctenocephalides felis) and their potential role as vectors in a plague-endemic region of Uganda. Am J Trop Med Hyg 78: 949ā 956.
Parmenter RR, Yadav EP, Parmenter CA, Ettestad P, Gage KL, 1999. Incidence of plague associated with increased winter-spring precipitation in New Mexico. Am J Trop Med Hyg 61: 814ā 821.
Enscore RE, Biggerstaff BJ, Brown TL, Fulgham RE, Reynolds PJ, Engelthaler DM, Levy CE, Parmenter RR, Montenieri JA, Cheek JE, Grinnell RK, Ettestad PJ, Gage KL, 2002. Modeling relationships between climate and the frequency of human plague cases in the southwestern United States, 1960ā1997. Am J Trop Med Hyg 66: 186ā 196.
Davis S, Calvet E, Leirs H, 2005. Fluctuating rodent populations and risk to humans from rodent-borne zoonoses. Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis 5: 305ā 314.
Kausrud KL, Viljugrein H, Frigessi A, Begon M, Davis S, Leirs H, Dubyanskiy V, Stenseth NC, 2007. Climatically driven synchrony of gerbil populations allows large-scale plague outbreaks. Proc Biol Sci 274: 1963ā 1969.
Collinge SK, Johnson WC, Ray C, Matchett R, Grensten J, Cully JF, Gage KL, Kosoy M, Loye JE, Martin A, 2005. Testing the generality of the tropic-cascade model for plague. EcoHealth 2: 102ā 112.
Mann JM, Martone WJ, Boyce JM, Kaufmann AF, Barnes AM, Weber NS, 1979. Endemic human plague in New Mexico: risk factors associated with infection. J Infect Dis 140: 397ā 401.
Akiev AK, 1982. Epidemiology and incidence of plague in the world, 1958ā79. Bull World Health Organ 60: 165ā 169.
Gratz N, 1999. Control of plague transmission. Plague Manual: Epidemiology, Distribution, Surveillance and Control. Geneva: World Health Organization, 97ā 134.
Cavanaugh DC, Marshall JD Jr, 1972. The influence of climate on the seasonal prevalence of plague in the Republic of Vietnam. J Wildl Dis 8: 85ā 94.
Gage KL, Burkot TR, Eisen RJ, Hayes EB, 2008. Climate and vector-borne diseases. Am J Prev Med 35: 436ā 450.
Davis S, Begon M, De Bruyn L, Ageyev VS, Klassovskiy NL, Pole SB, Viljugrein H, Stenseth NC, Leirs H, 2004. Predictive thresholds for plague in Kazakhstan. Science 304: 736ā 738.
Davis S, Trapman P, Leirs H, Begon M, Heesterbeek JA, 2008. The abundance threshold for plague as a critical percolation phenomenon. Nature 454: 634ā 637.
Hirst LF, 1953. The Conquest of Plague. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press, 478.
Krasnov BR, Khokhlova IS, 2001. The effect of behavioral interactions on the transfer of fleas (Siphonaptera) between two rodent species. J Vector Ecol 26: 181ā 190.
Krasnov BR, Shenbrot GI, Mouillot D, Khokhlova IS, Poulin R, 2006. Ecological characteristics of flea species relate to their suitability as plague vectors. Oecologia 149: 474ā 481.
Brown HE, Ettestad P, Reynolds PJ, Brown TL, Hatton ES, Holmes JL, Glass GE, Gage KL, Eisen RJ, 2010. Climatic predictors of the intra- and inter-annual distributions of plague cases in New Mexico based on 29 years of animal-based surveillance data. Am J Trop Med Hyg 82: 95ā 102.
Ari TB, Gershunov A, Tristan R, Cazelles B, Gage K, Stenseth NC, 2010. Interannual variability of human plague occurrence in the Western United States explained by tropical and North Pacific Ocean climate variability. Am J Trop Med Hyg 83: 624ā 632.
Ari TB, Gershunov A, Gage KL, Snall T, Ettestad P, Kausrud KL, Stenseth NC, 2008. Human plague in the USA: the importance of regional and local climate. Biol Lett 4: 737ā 740.
Amatre G, Babi N, Enscore RE, Ogen-Odoi A, Atiku LA, Akol A, Gage KL, Eisen RJ, 2009. Flea diversity and infestation prevalence on rodents in a plague-endemic region of Uganda. Am J Trop Med Hyg 81: 718ā 724.
Chu MC, 2000. Laboratory Training Manual of Plague Diagnostic Tests. Atlanta, GA: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Geneva: World Health Organization.
Skamarock WC, Klemp JB, 2008. A time-split nonhydrostatic atmospheric model for weather research and forecasting applications. J Comput Phys 227: 3465ā 3485.
Chen F, Dudhia J, 2001. Coupling an advanced land surface-hydrology model with the Penn State-NCAR MM5 modeling system. Part I: Model implementation and sensitivity. Mon Weather Rev 129: 569ā 585.
Kanamitsu M, Ebisuzaki W, Woollen J, Yang SK, Hnilo JJ, Fiorino M, Potter GL, 2002. Ncep-Doe Amip-Ii Reanalysis (R-2). Bull Am Meteorol Soc 83: 1631ā 1643.
Monaghan AJ, Rife DL, Pinto JO, Davis CA, Hannan JR, 2010. Global precipitation extremes associated with diurnally varying low-level jets. J Clim 23: 5065ā 5084.
Rife DL, Pinto JO, Monaghan AJ, Davis CA, Hannan JR, 2010. Global distribution and characteristics of diurnally varying low-level jets. J Clim 23: 5041ā 5064.
Reynolds RW, Rayner NA, Smith TM, Stokes DC, Wang WQ, 2002. An improved in situ and satellite SST analysis for climate. J Clim 15: 1609ā 1625.
Wan Z, 2009. MODIS Land Surface Temperature Products Users' Guide. Santa Barbara, CA: University of California, ICESS.
Rodell M, Houser PR, Jambor U, Gottschalck J, Mitchell K, Meng CJ, Arsenault K, Cosgrove B, Radakovich J, Bosilovich M, Entin JK, Walker JP, Lohmann D, Toll D, 2004. The global land data assimilation system. Bull Am Meteorol Soc 85: 381.
Wood AW, Leung LR, Sridhar V, Lettenmaier DP, 2004. Hydrologic implications of dynamical and statistical approaches to downscaling climate model outputs. Clim Change 62: 189ā 216.
Monaghan AJ, Eisen RJ, MacMillan K, Gage KL, Moore SM, Hayden MH, 2011. Modeling regional climate and human plague in the West Nile region of Uganda. J Appl Meteorol Climatol (in review).
Akaike H, 1974. A new look at the statistical model identification. IEEE Trans Automat Contr 19: 716ā 723.
Burnham KP, Anderson DR, 1988. Model Selection and Inference: A Practical Information-Theoretic Approach. New York: Springer.
Fielding AH, Bell JF, 1997. A review of methods for the assessment of prediction errors in conservation presence/absence models. Environ Conserv 24: 38ā 49.
Eisen RJ, Enscore RE, Biggerstaff BJ, Reynolds PJ, Ettestad P, Brown T, Pape J, Tanda D, Levy CE, Engelthaler DM, Cheek J, Bueno R Jr, Targhetta J, Montenieri JA, Gage KL, 2007. Human plague in the southwestern United States, 1957ā2004: spatial models of elevated risk of human exposure to Yersinia pestis. J Med Entomol 44: 530ā 537.
Davis DH, 1953. Plague in Africa from 1935 to 1949; a survey of wild rodents in African territories. Bull World Health Organ 9: 665ā 700.
Hopkins G, 1949. Report on Rats, Fleas and Plague in Uganda. Nairobi, Kenya: East African Standard, Ltd.
Davis DH, 1949. Current methods of controlling rodents and fleas in the campaign against bubonic plague and murine typhus. J R Sanit Inst 69: 170ā 175.
Sharif M, 1951. Spread of plague in the southern and central divisions of Bombay Province and plague endemic centers in the Indo-Pakistan subcontinent. Bull World Health Organ 4: 75ā 109.
Cavanaugh DC, Dangerfield HG, Hunter DH, Joy RJ, Marshall JD Jr, Quy DV, Vivona S, Winter PE, 1968. Some observations on the current plague outbreak in the Republic of Vietnam. Am J Public Health Nations Health 58: 742ā 752.
Marshall JD, Ouy DV, Gibson FL, Dung TC, Cavanaugh DC, 1967. Ecology of plague in Vietnam: commensal rodents and their fleas. Mil Med 132: 896ā 903.
Eisen RJ, Glass GE, Eisen L, Cheek J, Enscore RE, Ettestad P, Gage KL, 2007. A spatial model of shared risk for plague and hantavirus pulmonary syndrome in the southwestern United States. Am J Trop Med Hyg 77: 999ā 1004.
Holt AC, Salkeld DJ, Fritz CL, Tucker JR, Gong P, 2009. Spatial analysis of plague in California: niche modeling predictions of the current distribution and potential response to climate change. Int J Health Geogr 8: 38.
Duplantier JM, Duchemin JB, Chanteau S, Carniel E, 2005. From the recent lessons of the Malagasy foci towards a global understanding of the factors involved in plague reemergence. Vet Res 36: 437ā 453.
Nakazawa Y, Williams R, Peterson AT, Mead P, Staples E, Gage KL, 2007. Climate change effects on plague and tularemia in the United States. Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis 7: 529ā 540.
Roberts JI, 1936. Plague conditions in an urban area of Kenya (Nairobi township). J Hyg (Lond) 36: 467ā 484.
Kilonzo BS, Patel NR, Mtoi RS, 1981. Studies on the seasonal fluctuations of rodents and their fleas in north-eastern Tanzania. Tanzanian Veterinary Bulletin 3: 3ā 19.
Rahelinirina S, Duplantier JM, Ratovonjato J, Ramilijaona O, Ratsimba M, Rahalison L, 2010. Study on the movement of Rattus rattus and evaluation of the plague dispersion in Madagascar. Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis 10: 77ā 84.
Duplantier JM, Duchemin JB, Chanteau S, Carniel E, 1999. The rodent problem in Madagascar: agricultural pest and threat to human health. ACIAR, ed. Ecologically Based Rodent Management. Canberra, Australia: ACIAR, 441ā 459.
Makundi R, Oguge NO, Mwanjabe PS, 1999. Rodent pest management in East Africa: an ecological approach. Ecologically Based Rodent Management. Canberra, Australia: Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research.
Eisen RJ, Eisen L, Gage KL, 2009. Studies of vector competency and efficiency of North American fleas for Yersinia pestis: state of the field and future research needs. J Med Entomol 46: 737ā 744.
Jones KE, Patel NG, Levy MA, Storeygard A, Balk D, Gittleman JL, Daszak P, 2008. Global trends in emerging infectious diseases. Nature 451: 990ā 993.
Hijmans RJ, Cameron SE, Parra JL, Jones PG, Jarvis A, 2005. Very high resolution interpolated climate surfaces for global land areas. Int J Climatol 25: 1965ā 1978.
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East Africa has been identified as a region where vector-borne and zoonotic diseases are most likely to emerge or re-emerge and where morbidity and mortality from these diseases is significant. Understanding when and where humans are most likely to be exposed to vector-borne and zoonotic disease agents in this region can aid in targeting limited prevention and control resources. Often, spatial and temporal distributions of vectors and vector-borne disease agents are predictable based on climatic variables. However, because of coarse meteorological observation networks, appropriately scaled and accurate climate data are often lacking for Africa. Here, we use a recently developed 10-year gridded meteorological dataset from the Advanced Weather Research and Forecasting Model to identify climatic variables predictive of the spatial distribution of human plague cases in the West Nile region of Uganda. Our logistic regression model revealed that within high elevation sites (above 1,300 m), plague risk was positively associated with rainfall during the months of February, October, and November and negatively associated with rainfall during the month of June. These findings suggest that areas that receive increased but not continuous rainfall provide ecologically conducive conditions for Yersinia pestis transmission in this region. This study serves as a foundation for similar modeling efforts of other vector-borne and zoonotic disease in regions with sparse observational meteorologic networks.
Financial support: This work was supported in part by funds from the CDC Climate Change Program.
Authors' addresses: Katherine MacMillan, Kevin S. Griffith, Paul S. Mead, Russell E. Enscore, Kenneth L. Gage, and Rebecca J. Eisen, Division of Vector-Borne Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Fort Collins, CO, E-mail: iky4@cdc.gov. Andrew J. Monaghan and Sean M. Moore, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO. Titus Apangu, Sara Acayo, Rogers Acidri, and Joseph Tendo Mpanga, Uganda Virus Research Institute, Entebbe, Uganda.
Gage KL, Kosoy MY, 2005. Natural history of plague: perspectives from more than a century of research. Annu Rev Entomol 50: 505ā 528.
Eisen RJ, Gage KL, 2009. Adaptive strategies of Yersinia pestis to persist during inter-epizootic and epizootic periods. Vet Res 40: 1.
Dennis DT, Chow CC, 2004. Plague. Pediatr Infect Dis J 23: 69ā 71.
Crook LD, Tempest B, 1992. Plague. A clinical review of 27 cases. Arch Intern Med 152: 1253ā 1256.
Poland JD, Dennis DT, 1999. Diagnosis and clinical manifestations. Plague Manual: Epidemiology, Distribution, Surveillance and Control. Geneva: World Health Organization, 43ā 54.
Neerinckx S, Bertherat E, Leirs H, 2010. Human plague occurrences in Africa: an overview from 1877 to 2008. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 104: 97ā 103.
Neerinckx SB, Peterson AT, Gulinck H, Deckers J, Leirs H, 2008. Geographic distribution and ecological niche of plague in sub-Saharan Africa. Int J Health Geogr 7: 54.
WHO, 2005. Outbreak news index 2005. Wkly Epidemiol Rec 80: 433ā 440.
WHO, 2009. Human plague: review of regional morbidity and mortality, 2004ā2009. Wkly Epidemiol Rec 85: 40ā 45.
Kilonzo BS, 1999. Plague epidemiology and control in eastern and southern Africa during the period 1978 to 1997. Cent Afr J Med 45: 70ā 76.
Eisen RJ, Griffith KS, Borchert JN, MacMillan K, Apangu T, Owor N, Acayo S, Acidri R, Zielinski-Gutierrez E, Winters AM, Enscore RE, Schriefer ME, Beard CB, Gage KL, Mead PS, 2010. Assessing human risk of exposure to plague bacteria in northwestern Uganda based on remotely sensed predictors. Am J Trop Med Hyg 82: 904ā 911.
Winters AM, Staples JE, Ogen-Odoi A, Mead PS, Griffith K, Owor N, Babi N, Enscore RE, Eisen L, Gage KL, Eisen RJ, 2009. Spatial risk models for human plague in the West Nile region of Uganda. Am J Trop Med Hyg 80: 1014ā 1022.
MacMillan K, Enscore RE, Ogen-Odoi A, Borchert JN, Babi N, Amatre G, Atiku LA, Mead PS, Gage KL, Eisen RJ, 2011. Landscape and residential variables associated with plague-endemic villages in the West Nile region of Uganda. Am J Trop Med Hyg 84: 435ā 442.
Eisen RJ, Borchert JN, Holmes JL, Amatre G, Van Wyk K, Enscore RE, Babi N, Atiku LA, Wilder AP, Vetter SM, Bearden SW, Montenieri JA, Gage KL, 2008. Early-phase transmission of Yersinia pestis by cat fleas (Ctenocephalides felis) and their potential role as vectors in a plague-endemic region of Uganda. Am J Trop Med Hyg 78: 949ā 956.
Parmenter RR, Yadav EP, Parmenter CA, Ettestad P, Gage KL, 1999. Incidence of plague associated with increased winter-spring precipitation in New Mexico. Am J Trop Med Hyg 61: 814ā 821.
Enscore RE, Biggerstaff BJ, Brown TL, Fulgham RE, Reynolds PJ, Engelthaler DM, Levy CE, Parmenter RR, Montenieri JA, Cheek JE, Grinnell RK, Ettestad PJ, Gage KL, 2002. Modeling relationships between climate and the frequency of human plague cases in the southwestern United States, 1960ā1997. Am J Trop Med Hyg 66: 186ā 196.
Davis S, Calvet E, Leirs H, 2005. Fluctuating rodent populations and risk to humans from rodent-borne zoonoses. Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis 5: 305ā 314.
Kausrud KL, Viljugrein H, Frigessi A, Begon M, Davis S, Leirs H, Dubyanskiy V, Stenseth NC, 2007. Climatically driven synchrony of gerbil populations allows large-scale plague outbreaks. Proc Biol Sci 274: 1963ā 1969.
Collinge SK, Johnson WC, Ray C, Matchett R, Grensten J, Cully JF, Gage KL, Kosoy M, Loye JE, Martin A, 2005. Testing the generality of the tropic-cascade model for plague. EcoHealth 2: 102ā 112.
Mann JM, Martone WJ, Boyce JM, Kaufmann AF, Barnes AM, Weber NS, 1979. Endemic human plague in New Mexico: risk factors associated with infection. J Infect Dis 140: 397ā 401.
Akiev AK, 1982. Epidemiology and incidence of plague in the world, 1958ā79. Bull World Health Organ 60: 165ā 169.
Gratz N, 1999. Control of plague transmission. Plague Manual: Epidemiology, Distribution, Surveillance and Control. Geneva: World Health Organization, 97ā 134.
Cavanaugh DC, Marshall JD Jr, 1972. The influence of climate on the seasonal prevalence of plague in the Republic of Vietnam. J Wildl Dis 8: 85ā 94.
Gage KL, Burkot TR, Eisen RJ, Hayes EB, 2008. Climate and vector-borne diseases. Am J Prev Med 35: 436ā 450.
Davis S, Begon M, De Bruyn L, Ageyev VS, Klassovskiy NL, Pole SB, Viljugrein H, Stenseth NC, Leirs H, 2004. Predictive thresholds for plague in Kazakhstan. Science 304: 736ā 738.
Davis S, Trapman P, Leirs H, Begon M, Heesterbeek JA, 2008. The abundance threshold for plague as a critical percolation phenomenon. Nature 454: 634ā 637.
Hirst LF, 1953. The Conquest of Plague. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press, 478.
Krasnov BR, Khokhlova IS, 2001. The effect of behavioral interactions on the transfer of fleas (Siphonaptera) between two rodent species. J Vector Ecol 26: 181ā 190.
Krasnov BR, Shenbrot GI, Mouillot D, Khokhlova IS, Poulin R, 2006. Ecological characteristics of flea species relate to their suitability as plague vectors. Oecologia 149: 474ā 481.
Brown HE, Ettestad P, Reynolds PJ, Brown TL, Hatton ES, Holmes JL, Glass GE, Gage KL, Eisen RJ, 2010. Climatic predictors of the intra- and inter-annual distributions of plague cases in New Mexico based on 29 years of animal-based surveillance data. Am J Trop Med Hyg 82: 95ā 102.
Ari TB, Gershunov A, Tristan R, Cazelles B, Gage K, Stenseth NC, 2010. Interannual variability of human plague occurrence in the Western United States explained by tropical and North Pacific Ocean climate variability. Am J Trop Med Hyg 83: 624ā 632.
Ari TB, Gershunov A, Gage KL, Snall T, Ettestad P, Kausrud KL, Stenseth NC, 2008. Human plague in the USA: the importance of regional and local climate. Biol Lett 4: 737ā 740.
Amatre G, Babi N, Enscore RE, Ogen-Odoi A, Atiku LA, Akol A, Gage KL, Eisen RJ, 2009. Flea diversity and infestation prevalence on rodents in a plague-endemic region of Uganda. Am J Trop Med Hyg 81: 718ā 724.
Chu MC, 2000. Laboratory Training Manual of Plague Diagnostic Tests. Atlanta, GA: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Geneva: World Health Organization.
Skamarock WC, Klemp JB, 2008. A time-split nonhydrostatic atmospheric model for weather research and forecasting applications. J Comput Phys 227: 3465ā 3485.
Chen F, Dudhia J, 2001. Coupling an advanced land surface-hydrology model with the Penn State-NCAR MM5 modeling system. Part I: Model implementation and sensitivity. Mon Weather Rev 129: 569ā 585.
Kanamitsu M, Ebisuzaki W, Woollen J, Yang SK, Hnilo JJ, Fiorino M, Potter GL, 2002. Ncep-Doe Amip-Ii Reanalysis (R-2). Bull Am Meteorol Soc 83: 1631ā 1643.
Monaghan AJ, Rife DL, Pinto JO, Davis CA, Hannan JR, 2010. Global precipitation extremes associated with diurnally varying low-level jets. J Clim 23: 5065ā 5084.
Rife DL, Pinto JO, Monaghan AJ, Davis CA, Hannan JR, 2010. Global distribution and characteristics of diurnally varying low-level jets. J Clim 23: 5041ā 5064.
Reynolds RW, Rayner NA, Smith TM, Stokes DC, Wang WQ, 2002. An improved in situ and satellite SST analysis for climate. J Clim 15: 1609ā 1625.
Wan Z, 2009. MODIS Land Surface Temperature Products Users' Guide. Santa Barbara, CA: University of California, ICESS.
Rodell M, Houser PR, Jambor U, Gottschalck J, Mitchell K, Meng CJ, Arsenault K, Cosgrove B, Radakovich J, Bosilovich M, Entin JK, Walker JP, Lohmann D, Toll D, 2004. The global land data assimilation system. Bull Am Meteorol Soc 85: 381.
Wood AW, Leung LR, Sridhar V, Lettenmaier DP, 2004. Hydrologic implications of dynamical and statistical approaches to downscaling climate model outputs. Clim Change 62: 189ā 216.
Monaghan AJ, Eisen RJ, MacMillan K, Gage KL, Moore SM, Hayden MH, 2011. Modeling regional climate and human plague in the West Nile region of Uganda. J Appl Meteorol Climatol (in review).
Akaike H, 1974. A new look at the statistical model identification. IEEE Trans Automat Contr 19: 716ā 723.
Burnham KP, Anderson DR, 1988. Model Selection and Inference: A Practical Information-Theoretic Approach. New York: Springer.
Fielding AH, Bell JF, 1997. A review of methods for the assessment of prediction errors in conservation presence/absence models. Environ Conserv 24: 38ā 49.
Eisen RJ, Enscore RE, Biggerstaff BJ, Reynolds PJ, Ettestad P, Brown T, Pape J, Tanda D, Levy CE, Engelthaler DM, Cheek J, Bueno R Jr, Targhetta J, Montenieri JA, Gage KL, 2007. Human plague in the southwestern United States, 1957ā2004: spatial models of elevated risk of human exposure to Yersinia pestis. J Med Entomol 44: 530ā 537.
Davis DH, 1953. Plague in Africa from 1935 to 1949; a survey of wild rodents in African territories. Bull World Health Organ 9: 665ā 700.
Hopkins G, 1949. Report on Rats, Fleas and Plague in Uganda. Nairobi, Kenya: East African Standard, Ltd.
Davis DH, 1949. Current methods of controlling rodents and fleas in the campaign against bubonic plague and murine typhus. J R Sanit Inst 69: 170ā 175.
Sharif M, 1951. Spread of plague in the southern and central divisions of Bombay Province and plague endemic centers in the Indo-Pakistan subcontinent. Bull World Health Organ 4: 75ā 109.
Cavanaugh DC, Dangerfield HG, Hunter DH, Joy RJ, Marshall JD Jr, Quy DV, Vivona S, Winter PE, 1968. Some observations on the current plague outbreak in the Republic of Vietnam. Am J Public Health Nations Health 58: 742ā 752.
Marshall JD, Ouy DV, Gibson FL, Dung TC, Cavanaugh DC, 1967. Ecology of plague in Vietnam: commensal rodents and their fleas. Mil Med 132: 896ā 903.
Eisen RJ, Glass GE, Eisen L, Cheek J, Enscore RE, Ettestad P, Gage KL, 2007. A spatial model of shared risk for plague and hantavirus pulmonary syndrome in the southwestern United States. Am J Trop Med Hyg 77: 999ā 1004.
Holt AC, Salkeld DJ, Fritz CL, Tucker JR, Gong P, 2009. Spatial analysis of plague in California: niche modeling predictions of the current distribution and potential response to climate change. Int J Health Geogr 8: 38.
Duplantier JM, Duchemin JB, Chanteau S, Carniel E, 2005. From the recent lessons of the Malagasy foci towards a global understanding of the factors involved in plague reemergence. Vet Res 36: 437ā 453.
Nakazawa Y, Williams R, Peterson AT, Mead P, Staples E, Gage KL, 2007. Climate change effects on plague and tularemia in the United States. Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis 7: 529ā 540.
Roberts JI, 1936. Plague conditions in an urban area of Kenya (Nairobi township). J Hyg (Lond) 36: 467ā 484.
Kilonzo BS, Patel NR, Mtoi RS, 1981. Studies on the seasonal fluctuations of rodents and their fleas in north-eastern Tanzania. Tanzanian Veterinary Bulletin 3: 3ā 19.
Rahelinirina S, Duplantier JM, Ratovonjato J, Ramilijaona O, Ratsimba M, Rahalison L, 2010. Study on the movement of Rattus rattus and evaluation of the plague dispersion in Madagascar. Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis 10: 77ā 84.
Duplantier JM, Duchemin JB, Chanteau S, Carniel E, 1999. The rodent problem in Madagascar: agricultural pest and threat to human health. ACIAR, ed. Ecologically Based Rodent Management. Canberra, Australia: ACIAR, 441ā 459.
Makundi R, Oguge NO, Mwanjabe PS, 1999. Rodent pest management in East Africa: an ecological approach. Ecologically Based Rodent Management. Canberra, Australia: Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research.
Eisen RJ, Eisen L, Gage KL, 2009. Studies of vector competency and efficiency of North American fleas for Yersinia pestis: state of the field and future research needs. J Med Entomol 46: 737ā 744.
Jones KE, Patel NG, Levy MA, Storeygard A, Balk D, Gittleman JL, Daszak P, 2008. Global trends in emerging infectious diseases. Nature 451: 990ā 993.
Hijmans RJ, Cameron SE, Parra JL, Jones PG, Jarvis A, 2005. Very high resolution interpolated climate surfaces for global land areas. Int J Climatol 25: 1965ā 1978.
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