All That Glisters Is Not Gold: Sampling-Process Uncertainty in Disease-Vector Surveys with False-Negative and False-Positive Detections

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Fernando Abad-Franch ,

* E-mail: fernando.abad@cpqrr.fiocruz.br; fernando@amazonia.fiocruz.br

Current address: Centro de Pesquisa René Rachou – Fiocruz, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Affiliation Infectious Disease Ecology Laboratory, Instituto Leônidas e Maria Deane – Fiocruz Amazônia, Manaus, Brazil
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Carolina Valença-Barbosa,

Affiliation Chagas Disease Eco-epidemiology Laboratory, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz – Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Otília Sarquis,

Affiliation Chagas Disease Eco-epidemiology Laboratory, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz – Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Marli M. Lima

Affiliation Chagas Disease Eco-epidemiology Laboratory, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz – Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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