@article{02600a593d4947cf91cf65c4f6310326,
title = "Characterization of the spatial and temporal distribution of Nipah virus spillover events in Bangladesh, 2007–2013",
abstract = "Nipah virus is a zoonotic virus harbored by bats and lethal to humans. Bat-to-human spillovers occur every winter in Bangladesh. However, there is significant heterogeneity in the number of spillovers detected by district and year that remains unexplained. We analyzed data from all 57 spillovers during 2007–2013 and found that temperature differences explained 36% of the year-to-year variation in the total number of spillovers each winter and that distance to surveillance hospitals explained 45% of spatial heterogeneity. Interventions to prevent human infections may be most important during colder winters. Further work is needed to understand how dynamics of bat infections explains spillover risk.",
keywords = "Bangladesh, Epidemiology, Nipah virus, Spati-otemporal spread",
author = "Cortes, {Maria C.} and Simon Cauchemez and Noemie Lefrancq and Luby, {Stephen P.} and {Jahangir Hossain}, M. and Sazzad, {Hossain M.S.} and Mahmudur Rahman and Peter Daszak and Henrik Salje and Gurley, {Emily S.}",
note = "Funding Information: Acknowledgments. icddr,b thanks the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, for commitment to its research efforts; and the governments of Australia, Bangladesh, Canada, Sweden, and the United Kingdom, for providing core/ unrestricted support. Funding Information: Financial support. This work was supported by the National Science Foundation/National Institute of Health (Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases grant 2R01-TW005869) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} The Author(s) 2018. Published by Oxford University Press for the Infectious Diseases Society of America. All rights reserved.",
year = "2018",
month = may,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1093/infdis/jiy015",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "217",
pages = "1390--1394",
journal = "Journal of Infectious Diseases",
issn = "0022-1899",
publisher = "Oxford University Press",
number = "9",
}