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Modeling of spatio-temporal variation in plague incidence in Madagascar from 1980 to 2007

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Modeling of spatio-temporal variation in plague incidence in Madagascar from 1980 to 2007. / Giorgi, Emanuele; Kreppel, Katharina; Diggle, Peter John et al.
In: Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology, Vol. 19, 11.2016, p. 125-135.

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Giorgi, E, Kreppel, K, Diggle, PJ, Caminade, C, Ratsitorahina, M, Rajerison, M & Baylis, M 2016, 'Modeling of spatio-temporal variation in plague incidence in Madagascar from 1980 to 2007', Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology, vol. 19, pp. 125-135. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sste.2016.10.001

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Giorgi, E., Kreppel, K., Diggle, P. J., Caminade, C., Ratsitorahina, M., Rajerison, M., & Baylis, M. (2016). Modeling of spatio-temporal variation in plague incidence in Madagascar from 1980 to 2007. Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology, 19, 125-135. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sste.2016.10.001

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Giorgi E, Kreppel K, Diggle PJ, Caminade C, Ratsitorahina M, Rajerison M et al. Modeling of spatio-temporal variation in plague incidence in Madagascar from 1980 to 2007. Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology. 2016 Nov;19:125-135. Epub 2016 Oct 18. doi: 10.1016/j.sste.2016.10.001

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Giorgi, Emanuele ; Kreppel, Katharina ; Diggle, Peter John et al. / Modeling of spatio-temporal variation in plague incidence in Madagascar from 1980 to 2007. In: Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology. 2016 ; Vol. 19. pp. 125-135.

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title = "Modeling of spatio-temporal variation in plague incidence in Madagascar from 1980 to 2007",
abstract = "Plague is an infectious disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, which, during the fourteenth century, caused the deaths of an estimated 75–200 million people in Europe. Plague epidemics still occur in Africa, Asia and South America. Madagascar is today one of the most endemic countries, reporting nearly one third of the human cases worldwide from 2004 to 2009. The persistence of plague in Madagascar is associated with environmental and climatic conditions. In this paper we present a case study of the spatio-temporal analysis of plague incidence in Madagascar from 1980 to 2007. We study the relationship of plague with temperature and precipitation anomalies, and with elevation. A joint spatio-temporal analysis of the data proves to be computationally intractable. We therefore develop a spatio-temporal log-Gaussian Cox process model, but then carry out marginal temporal and spatial analyses. We also introduce a spatially discrete approximation for Gaussian processes, whose parameters retain a spatially continuous interpretation. We find evidence of a cumulative effect, over time, of temperature anomalies on plague incidence, and of a very high relative risk of plague occurrence for locations above 800 m in elevation. Our approach provides a useful modeling framework to assess the relationship between exposures and plague risk, irrespective of the spatial resolution at which the latter has been recorded.",
keywords = "Cox process, Distributed lag-model, Gaussian process, Plague, Spatio-temporal point pattern",
author = "Emanuele Giorgi and Katharina Kreppel and Diggle, {Peter John} and Cyril Caminade and Maherisoa Ratsitorahina and Minoarisoa Rajerison and Matthew Baylis",
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AU - Kreppel, Katharina

AU - Diggle, Peter John

AU - Caminade, Cyril

AU - Ratsitorahina, Maherisoa

AU - Rajerison, Minoarisoa

AU - Baylis, Matthew

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N2 - Plague is an infectious disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, which, during the fourteenth century, caused the deaths of an estimated 75–200 million people in Europe. Plague epidemics still occur in Africa, Asia and South America. Madagascar is today one of the most endemic countries, reporting nearly one third of the human cases worldwide from 2004 to 2009. The persistence of plague in Madagascar is associated with environmental and climatic conditions. In this paper we present a case study of the spatio-temporal analysis of plague incidence in Madagascar from 1980 to 2007. We study the relationship of plague with temperature and precipitation anomalies, and with elevation. A joint spatio-temporal analysis of the data proves to be computationally intractable. We therefore develop a spatio-temporal log-Gaussian Cox process model, but then carry out marginal temporal and spatial analyses. We also introduce a spatially discrete approximation for Gaussian processes, whose parameters retain a spatially continuous interpretation. We find evidence of a cumulative effect, over time, of temperature anomalies on plague incidence, and of a very high relative risk of plague occurrence for locations above 800 m in elevation. Our approach provides a useful modeling framework to assess the relationship between exposures and plague risk, irrespective of the spatial resolution at which the latter has been recorded.

AB - Plague is an infectious disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, which, during the fourteenth century, caused the deaths of an estimated 75–200 million people in Europe. Plague epidemics still occur in Africa, Asia and South America. Madagascar is today one of the most endemic countries, reporting nearly one third of the human cases worldwide from 2004 to 2009. The persistence of plague in Madagascar is associated with environmental and climatic conditions. In this paper we present a case study of the spatio-temporal analysis of plague incidence in Madagascar from 1980 to 2007. We study the relationship of plague with temperature and precipitation anomalies, and with elevation. A joint spatio-temporal analysis of the data proves to be computationally intractable. We therefore develop a spatio-temporal log-Gaussian Cox process model, but then carry out marginal temporal and spatial analyses. We also introduce a spatially discrete approximation for Gaussian processes, whose parameters retain a spatially continuous interpretation. We find evidence of a cumulative effect, over time, of temperature anomalies on plague incidence, and of a very high relative risk of plague occurrence for locations above 800 m in elevation. Our approach provides a useful modeling framework to assess the relationship between exposures and plague risk, irrespective of the spatial resolution at which the latter has been recorded.

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KW - Gaussian process

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JO - Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology

JF - Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology

SN - 1877-5845

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