Ecological niche and geographic distribution of human monkeypox in Africa

Monkeypox virus, a zoonotic member of the genus Orthopoxviridae, can cause a severe, smallpox-like illness in humans. Monkeypox virus is thought to be endemic to forested areas of western and Central Africa. Considerably more is known about human monkeypox disease occurrence than about natural sylva...

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Published in:PloS one 2007-01, Vol.2 (1), p.e176-e176
Main Authors: Levine, Rebecca S, Peterson, A Townsend, Yorita, Krista L, Carroll, Darin, Damon, Inger K, Reynolds, Mary G
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Annual precipitation
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Ecological effects
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Mean annual precipitation
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Monkeypox
Monkeypox virus - pathogenicity
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Niches
Orthopoxvirus
Parasitic diseases
Phylogeny
Prediction models
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Algorithms
Analysis
Animals
Annual precipitation
Biodiversity
Climate change
Data collection
Disease control
Disease prevention
Disease transmission
Ecological effects
Ecological monitoring
Ecological niches
Ecological studies
Ecology
Ecosystem
Epidemiology
Geographical distribution
Geography
Health promotion
Human monkeypox
Humans
Infectious Diseases
Informatics
Information science
Mathematical models
Mean annual precipitation
Medical laboratories
Microscopy
Models, Theoretical
Monkeypox
Monkeypox virus - pathogenicity
Mpox
Mpox (monkeypox) - epidemiology
Niche (Ecology)
Niches
Orthopoxvirus
Parasitic diseases
Phylogeny
Prediction models
Public health
Public Health and Epidemiology
Smallpox
Studies
Trees
Tropical diseases
Viral infections
Virology
Viruses
World Health Organization
Zoonoses
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