Introduction Leptospirosis is a zoonotic disease responsible for over 1 million severe cases
and 60,000 deaths annually. The wide range of animal hosts and complex environmental …

Regression models are the standard approaches used in infectious disease epidemiology,
but have limited ability to represent causality or complexity. We explore Bayesian networks …

Background Leptospirosis is a globally important zoonotic disease, with complex exposure
pathways that depend on interactions between human beings, animals, and the …

Leptospirosis is a globally emerging zoonotic disease, associated with various climatic,
biotic and abiotic factors. Mapping and quantifying geographical variations in the occurrence …

Studies attempting to identify environmental risk factors for diseases can be seen to extract
candidate variables from remotely sensed datasets, using a single buffer-zone surrounding …

Background Rat-borne leptospirosis is an emerging zoonotic disease in urban slum
settlements for which there are no adequate control measures. The challenge in elucidating …

Background Leptospirosis, a zoonotic disease, stands as one of the prevailing health issues
in some tropical areas of Iran. Over a decade, its incidence rate has been estimated at …

Leptospirosis is a global zoonotic disease that the transmission is driven by complex
geographical and temporal variation in demographics, animal hosts and socioecological …

Leptospirosis has been recognized as a major public health concern in Thailand following
dramatic outbreaks. We analyzed human leptospirosis incidence between 2004 and 2014 in …

The ability to explicitly represent infectious disease distributions and their risk factors over
massive geographical and temporal scales has transformed how we investigate how …