Modeling Disease Vector Occurrence when Detection Is Imperfect: Infestation of Amazonian Palm Trees by Triatomine Bugs at Three Spatial Scales

• Fernando Abad-Franch ,

  * E-mail: fernando@amazonia.fiocruz.br

  Affiliations Instituto Leônidas e Maria Deane – Fiocruz Amazônia, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil, Pathogen Molecular Biology Unit, Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

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• Gonçalo Ferraz,

  Affiliations Instituto Leônidas e Maria Deane – Fiocruz Amazônia, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil, Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute/Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil

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• Ciro Campos,

  Current address: Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Núcleo Roraima, Boa Vista, Roraima, Brazil

  Affiliation Instituto Leônidas e Maria Deane – Fiocruz Amazônia, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil

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• Francisco S. Palomeque,

  Affiliations Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Centro de Investigación en Enfermedades Infecciosas, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador

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• Mario J. Grijalva,

  Affiliations Centro de Investigación en Enfermedades Infecciosas, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador, Tropical Disease Institute, Biomedical Sciences Department, Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine, Athens, Ohio, United States of America

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• H. Marcelo Aguilar,

  Affiliations Instituto Juan César García – Fundación Internacional de Ciencias Sociales y Salud, Quito, Ecuador, Ministerio de Salud Pública del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador

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• Michael A. Miles

  Affiliation Pathogen Molecular Biology Unit, Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

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