Robert F. Brand:
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9790-3120
Role: ConceptualizationRole: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: InvestigationRole:
MethodologyRole: Project administrationRole: ResourcesRole: SupervisionRole: ValidationRole:
VisualizationRole: Writing – original draft
Melinda K. Rostal: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Data curationRole: Funding acquisitionRole: MethodologyRole:
Project administrationRole: ResourcesRole: SupervisionRole: ValidationRole: VisualizationRole:
Writing – review & editing
Alan Kemp: Role: ConceptualizationRole: InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole: ResourcesRole: SupervisionRole:
ValidationRole: VisualizationRole: Writing – review & editing
Assaf Anyamba: Role: ConceptualizationRole: MethodologyRole: ResourcesRole: VisualizationRole: Writing
– review & editing
Herman Zwiegers: Role: Data curationRole: Investigation
Cornelius W. Van Huyssteen: Role: InvestigationRole: ResourcesRole: Writing – review & editing
William B. Karesh: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Funding acquisitionRole: Writing – review & editing
Janusz T. Paweska: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Funding acquisitionRole: ResourcesRole: ValidationRole:
VisualizationRole: Writing – review & editing
Zhengguang Zhang: Role: Editor
Journal ID (nlm-ta): PLoS One
Journal ID (iso-abbrev): PLoS ONE
Journal ID (publisher-id): plos
Journal ID (pmc): plosone
Title:
PLoS ONE
Publisher:
Public Library of Science
(San Francisco, CA USA
)
ISSN
(Electronic):
1932-6203
Publication date
(Electronic):
20
February
2018
Publication date Collection: 2018
Volume: 13
Issue: 2
Electronic Location Identifier: e0191585
Affiliations
[1
]
Cuyahoga County Board of Health, Parma, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States of America
[2
]
Department of Botany, University of the Free State, Republic of South Africa
[3
]
EcoHealth Alliance, New York, NY, United States of America
[4
]
Centre for Emerging, Zoonotic and Parasitic Diseases, National Institute for Communicable
Diseases, Sandringham, South Africa
[5
]
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Biospheric Science Laboratory & Universities Space
Research Association, Greenbelt, MD, United States of America
[6
]
ExecuVet, Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa
[7
]
Soil- and Crop- and Climate Sciences Department, University of the Free State, Free
State, Republic of South Africa
Nanjing Agricultural University, CHINA
Author notes
Competing Interests: ExecuVet is a privately run South African veterinary and scientific consulting company
that is on contract to EcoHealth Alliance to conduct the day-to-day field work on
the larger Understanding Rift Valley Fever in Republic of South Africa as funded by
DTRA (and reported in the funding statement). This does not alter our adherence to
PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.
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Publisher ID:
PONE-D-17-19963
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0191585
PMC ID: 5819772
PubMed ID: 29462214
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Funded by: Defence Threat reduction Agency
Award ID: Grant # HDTRA1-14-1-0029
This work was supported by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Grant Number: HDTRA1-14-1-0029,
DTRA URL:
http://www.dtra.mil/. The only funding that was used or contributed to this study was provided via a grant
by DTRA. The funding agency, DTRA, did not play a role in the study design, data collection
and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript and only provided
financial support in the form of authors' salaries and/or research materials. The
specific roles of authors are articulated in the ‘author contributions’ section.
Subject:
Research Article
Subject:
Ecology and Environmental Sciences
Subject:
Aquatic Environments
Subject:
Freshwater Environments
Subject:
Wetlands
Subject:
Earth Sciences
Subject:
Marine and Aquatic Sciences
Subject:
Aquatic Environments
Subject:
Freshwater Environments
Subject:
Wetlands
Subject:
Earth Sciences
Subject:
Geomorphology
Subject:
Topography
Subject:
Landforms
Subject:
Wetlands
Subject:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Infectious Diseases
Subject:
Disease Vectors
Subject:
Insect Vectors
Subject:
Mosquitoes
Subject:
Biology and Life Sciences
Subject:
Species Interactions
Subject:
Disease Vectors
Subject:
Insect Vectors
Subject:
Mosquitoes
Subject:
Biology and Life Sciences
Subject:
Organisms
Subject:
Eukaryota
Subject:
Animals
Subject:
Invertebrates
Subject:
Arthropoda
Subject:
Insects
Subject:
Mosquitoes
Subject:
Medicine and health sciences
Subject:
Tropical diseases
Subject:
Neglected tropical diseases
Subject:
Rift Valley fever
Subject:
Medicine and health sciences
Subject:
Infectious diseases
Subject:
Viral diseases
Subject:
Rift Valley fever
Subject:
Medicine and health sciences
Subject:
Infectious diseases
Subject:
Zoonoses
Subject:
Rift Valley fever
Subject:
Biology and Life Sciences
Subject:
Organisms
Subject:
Eukaryota
Subject:
Plants
Subject:
Grasses
Subject:
Biology and life sciences
Subject:
Organisms
Subject:
Viruses
Subject:
RNA viruses
Subject:
Bunyaviruses
Subject:
Rift Valley fever virus
Subject:
Biology and life sciences
Subject:
Microbiology
Subject:
Medical microbiology
Subject:
Microbial pathogens
Subject:
Viral pathogens
Subject:
Bunyaviruses
Subject:
Rift Valley fever virus
Subject:
Medicine and health sciences
Subject:
Pathology and laboratory medicine
Subject:
Pathogens
Subject:
Microbial pathogens
Subject:
Viral pathogens
Subject:
Bunyaviruses
Subject:
Rift Valley fever virus
Subject:
Biology and life sciences
Subject:
Organisms
Subject:
Viruses
Subject:
Viral pathogens
Subject:
Bunyaviruses
Subject:
Rift Valley fever virus
Subject:
Biology and Life Sciences
Subject:
Agriculture
Subject:
Livestock
Subject:
Biology and Life Sciences
Subject:
Ecology
Subject:
Community Ecology
Subject:
Ecology and Environmental Sciences
Subject:
Ecology
Subject:
Community Ecology
Subject:
Ecology and Environmental Sciences
Subject:
Soil Science
Subject:
Soil Ecology
