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| Jeffrey ShamanSummaryAffiliation: Columbia University Country: USA Publications
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Using a dynamic hydrology model to predict mosquito abundances in flood and swamp waterJeffrey Shaman
Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Rm 106, Route 9W, Palisades, NY 10964, USA
Emerg Infect Dis 8:6-13. 2002..These predictions will enable public health agencies to institute control measures before the mosquitoes emerge as adults, when their role as transmitters of disease comes into play...
Drought-induced amplification of Saint Louis encephalitis virus, FloridaJeffrey Shaman
Columbia University, New York, New York 10964, USA
Emerg Infect Dis 8:575-80. 2002..nigripalpus and wild birds disperse, initiating an SLEV transmission cycle. These findings demonstrate a mechanism by which drought facilitates the amplification of SLEV and its subsequent transmission to humans...
St. Louis encephalitis virus in wild birds during the 1990 south Florida epidemic: the importance of drought, wetting conditions, and the emergence of Culex nigripalpus (Diptera: Culicidae) to arboviral amplification and transmissionJeffrey Shaman
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Columbia University, Palisades, NY 10964, USA
J Med Entomol 40:547-54. 2003....
Meteorological and hydrological influences on the spatial and temporal prevalence of West Nile virus in Culex mosquitoes, Suffolk County, New YorkJeffrey Shaman
Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, 722 West 168th St, Rosenfield Bldg, 1104C, New York, NY 10032, USA
J Med Entomol 48:867-75. 2011....
Strategies for controlling the epizootic amplification of arbovirusesJeffrey Shaman
Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York 10032, USA
J Med Entomol 48:1189-96. 2011....
The spatial-temporal distribution of drought, wetting, and human cases of St. Louis encephalitis in southcentral FloridaJeffrey Shaman
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
Am J Trop Med Hyg 71:251-61. 2004....
Achieving operational hydrologic monitoring of mosquitoborne diseaseJeffrey Shaman
College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon 97331, USA
Emerg Infect Dis 11:1343-50. 2005..Our efforts to establish operational monitoring of St. Louis encephalitis virus and West Nile virus transmission in Florida are also reviewed...
Amplification due to spatial clustering in an individual-based model of mosquito-avian arbovirus transmissionJeffrey Shaman
College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University, 104 COAS Admin Building, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA
Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 101:469-83. 2007..This model provides a basis for future exploration of specific zoonotic transmission cycles, including West Nile virus, and could be used to test the efficacy of various control strategies...
Seasonal forecast of St. Louis encephalitis virus transmission, FloridaJeffrey Shaman
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
Emerg Infect Dis 10:802-9. 2004..This study demonstrates how weather and climate forecast skill-verification analyses may be applied to test the predictability of an empiric disease forecast model...
Drought-induced amplification and epidemic transmission of West Nile virus in southern FloridaJeffrey Shaman
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
J Med Entomol 42:134-41. 2005..Our results indicate that widespread drought in the spring followed by wetting during summer greatly increase the probability of a WNV epidemic in southern Florida...
Using hydrologic conditions to forecast the risk of focal and epidemic arboviral transmission in peninsular FloridaJonathan F Day
University of Florida, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, 200 9th St SE, Vero Beach, FL 32962, USA
J Med Entomol 45:458-65. 2008..This study documents that monitoring hydrologic conditions, along with vector, avian amplification host, and virus population data, increases our ability to track and predict significant levels of arboviral transmission...
