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1. Environmental conditions and Puumala virus transmission in Belgium

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Eric F. Lambin, Catherine Linard, Herwig Leirs, Katrien Tersago, and UCL - SC/GEO - Département de géologie et de géographie

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Zoonoses -- epidemiology -- transmission, Disease reservoir, Indirect Transmission, General Computer Science, Business, Management and Accounting(all), Population, Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome -- epidemiology -- transmission -- veterinary, lcsh:Computer applications to medicine. Medical informatics, Puumala virus, law.invention, Trees, Belgium, law, Zoonoses, Nephropathia epidemica, medicine, Prevalence, Géographie physique, Animals, Belgium -- epidemiology, Humans, education, Ecosystem, Disease Reservoirs, education.field_of_study, Arvicolinae -- virology, biology, Geography, Arvicolinae, Ecology, Host (biology), Research, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Epidémiologie, biology.organism_classification, medicine.disease, General Business, Management and Accounting, Bank vole, Transmission (mechanics), Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome, Geographic Information Systems, lcsh:R858-859.7, Biologie spatiale, Puumala virus -- physiology, Computer Science(all)
Abstract

Non-vector-borne zoonoses such as Puumala hantavirus (PUUV) can be transmitted directly, by physical contact between infected and susceptible hosts, or indirectly, with the environment as an intermediate. The objective of this study is to better understand the causal link between environmental features and PUUV prevalence in bank vole population in Belgium, and hence with transmission risk to humans. Our hypothesis was that environmental conditions controlling the direct and indirect transmission paths differ, such that the risk of transmission to humans is not only determined by host abundance. We explored the relationship between, on one hand, environmental variables and, on the other hand, host abundance, PUUV prevalence in the host, and human cases of nephropathia epidemica (NE). Statistical analyses were carried out on 17 field sites situated in Belgian broadleaf forests., Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, info:eu-repo/semantics/published

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2007
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2. Determinants of the geographic distribution of Puumala virus and Lyme borreliosis infections in Belgium

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Sophie O. Vanwambeke, Eric F. Lambin, Geneviève Ducoffre, Paul Heyman, Pénélope Lamarque, Catherine Linard, Katrien Tersago, Victor Luyasu, and UCL - SC/GEO - Département de géologie et de géographie

Subjects
Systèmes d'information géographique, General Computer Science, Business, Management and Accounting(all), Environment, Spatial distribution, lcsh:Computer applications to medicine. Medical informatics, Communicable Diseases, Emerging, Puumala virus, Communicable Diseases, Emerging -- epidemiology, Lyme disease, Risk-Taking, Belgium, Zoonoses, medicine, Belgium -- epidemiology, Animals, Humans, Poisson Distribution, Borrelia burgdorferi, Géographie humaine, Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome -- epidemiology, Demography, Lyme Disease, biology, Ecology, Transmission (medicine), Research, Zoonoses -- epidemiology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Epidémiologie, medicine.disease, biology.organism_classification, General Business, Management and Accounting, Geography, Socioeconomic Factors, Vector (epidemiology), Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome, Multivariate Analysis, Spatial ecology, Linear Models, lcsh:R858-859.7, Spatial variability, Arachnid Vectors, Topography, Medical, Computer Science(all), Lyme Disease -- epidemiology
Abstract

Vector-borne and zoonotic diseases generally display clear spatial patterns due to different space-dependent factors. Land cover and land use influence disease transmission by controlling both the spatial distribution of vectors or hosts, and the probability of contact with susceptible human populations. The objective of this study was to combine environmental and socio-economic factors to explain the spatial distribution of two emerging human diseases in Belgium, Puumala virus (PUUV) and Lyme borreliosis. Municipalities were taken as units of analysis., Journal Article, Research Support, N.I.H. Extramural, info:eu-repo/semantics/published

Published
2007

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