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SUBMITTER: Xu L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4027397 | biostudies-other | 2014 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Proceedings. Biological sciences 20140212 1780
Currently, large-scale transmissions of infectious diseases are becoming more closely associated with accelerated globalization and climate change, but quantitative analyses are still rare. By using an extensive dataset consisting of date and location of cases for the third plague pandemic from 1772 to 1964 in China and a novel method (nearest neighbour approach) which deals with both short- and long-distance transmissions, we found the presence of major roads, rivers and coastline accelerated t ...[more]