Focusing on the utility of ticks as xenosurveillance sentinels to expose circulating pathogens
in Kenyan drylands, host-feeding ticks collected from wild ungulates [buffaloes, elephants …

Anthrax is caused by, Bacillus anthracis, a soil-borne bacterium that infects grazing animals.
Kenya reported a sharp increase in livestock anthrax cases from 2005, with only 12% of the …

Background In livestock disease surveillance, spatial statistics methods play a major role in
the identification of areas where the risk of disease could be higher. Though widely used in …

Background Anthrax is an important zoonotic disease in Kenya associated with high animal
and public health burden and widespread socio-economic impacts. The disease occurs in …

Anthrax, caused by Bacillus anthracis, has a nearly global distribution but is understudied in
Southeast Asia, including Vietnam. Here, we used historical data from 1999 to 2020 in Ha …

Climate and agricultural land-use change has increased the likelihood of infectious disease
emergence and transmissions, but these drivers are often examined separately as …

In this study, we used principal component analysis (PCA) to reduce the dimensionality of
the data and used a hierarchical and K-means clustering technique to stratify counties in …

Background In Ethiopia, anthrax is the second most important zoonotic disease, next to
rabies. Data quantifying occurrence and distribution of animal anthrax in Awi administrative …

Using data collected from previous (n= 86) and prospective (n= 132) anthrax outbreaks, we
enhanced prior ecological niche models (ENM) and added kernel density estimation (KDE) …

Climate and agricultural land-use change have increased the likelihood of infectious
disease emergence and transmissions, but these drivers are often examined separately as …