Defining ecological regions in Italy based on a multivariate clustering approach: A first step towards a targeted vector borne disease surveillance

• Carla Ippoliti ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: c.ippoliti@izs.it

  Affiliation Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell’Abruzzo e del Molise G. Caporale, Campo Boario, Teramo, Italy

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9030-7329

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• Luca Candeloro,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell’Abruzzo e del Molise G. Caporale, Campo Boario, Teramo, Italy

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• Marius Gilbert,

  Roles Conceptualization, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Spatial Epidemiology Lab (SpELL), Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium

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• Maria Goffredo,

  Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell’Abruzzo e del Molise G. Caporale, Campo Boario, Teramo, Italy

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• Giuseppe Mancini,

  Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell’Abruzzo e del Molise G. Caporale, Campo Boario, Teramo, Italy

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• Gabriele Curci,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Physical and Chemical Sciences, University of L’Aquila, L’Aquila, Italy, Center of Excellence in Telesensing of Environment and Model Prediction of Severe Events (CETEMPS), University of L’Aquila, L’Aquila, Italy

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• Serena Falasca,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Physical and Chemical Sciences, University of L’Aquila, L’Aquila, Italy, Center of Excellence in Telesensing of Environment and Model Prediction of Severe Events (CETEMPS), University of L’Aquila, L’Aquila, Italy

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• Susanna Tora,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell’Abruzzo e del Molise G. Caporale, Campo Boario, Teramo, Italy

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• Alessio Di Lorenzo,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell’Abruzzo e del Molise G. Caporale, Campo Boario, Teramo, Italy

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• Michela Quaglia,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell’Abruzzo e del Molise G. Caporale, Campo Boario, Teramo, Italy

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• Annamaria Conte

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell’Abruzzo e del Molise G. Caporale, Campo Boario, Teramo, Italy

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