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Volume 20, Number 2—February 2014
Dispatch

Human Cutaneous Anthrax, Georgia 2010–2012

Ian Kracalik1, Lile Malania1, Nikoloz Tsertsvadze, Julietta Manvelyan, Lela Bakanidze, Paata Imnadze, Shota Tsanava, and Jason K. BlackburnComments to Author 
Author affiliations: University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA (I. Kracalik, J.K. Blackburn); National Center for Disease Control and Public Health of Georgia, Tbilisi, Georgia (L. Malania, N. Tsertsvadze, J. Manvelyan, P. Imnadze, S. Tsanava); Agrarian University of Georgia, Tbilisi (L. Bakanidze)

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Figure 2

A) Empirical Bayes Smoothing cumulative incidence (per 10,000 population) of human cutaneous anthrax at the community level, Georgia, 2010–2012. Green star indicates the location of the capital, Tbilisi; gray star indicates the fourth most populous city, Rustavi. The total number of livestock cases during the study period is shown by region. B) Risk surface representing the estimated smoothed cumulative incidence per km2. C) Spatial clustering of human cutaneous anthrax cases as determined by us

Figure 2. A) Empirical Bayes Smoothing cumulative incidence (per 10,000 population) of human cutaneous anthrax at the community level, Georgia, 2010–2012. Green star indicates the location of the capital, Tbilisi; gray star indicates the fourth most populous city, Rustavi. The total number of livestock cases during the study period is shown by region. B) Risk surface representing the estimated smoothed cumulative incidence per square kilometer. C) Spatial clustering of human cutaneous anthrax cases as determined by using SaTScan (7). RR, risk ratio.

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1These authors contributed equally to this article.

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