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Volume 21, Number 10—October 2015
Dispatch

Spatiotemporal Patterns of Schistosomiasis-Related Deaths, Brazil, 2000–2011

Francisco Rogerlândio Martins-Melo, Marta Cristhiany Cunha Pinheiro, Alberto Novaes Ramos, Carlos Henrique Alencar, Fernando Schemelzer de Moraes Bezerra, and Jorg HeukelbachComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Ceará, Caucaia, Brazil (F.R. Martins-Melo); Federal University of Ceará, Fortaleza, Brazil (F.R. Martins-Melo, M.C.C. Pinheiro, A.N. Ramos Jr, C.H. Alencar, F.S.M. Bezerra, J. Heukelbach); James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia (J. Heukelbach)

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Spatial and spatiotemporal cluster analysis of rates of schistosomiasis-related deaths, by municipality of residence, Brazil, 2000–2011. A) LISA cluster analysis (Moran Map), based on Local Moran’s I index. B) Scan space-time clusters analysis, calculated by using Kulldorff’s scan statistics with SaTScan software version 9.1.1 (Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Information Management Service, Silver Spring, MD, USA). Mapping and calculation of autocorrelation spatial analysis were conduct

Figure 2. Spatial and spatiotemporal cluster analysis of rates of schistosomiasis-related deaths, by municipality of residence, Brazil, 2000–2011. A) LISA cluster analysis (Moran Map), based on Local Moran’s I index. B) Scan space-time clusters analysis, calculated by using Kulldorff’s scan statistics with SaTScan software version 9.1.1 (Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Information Management Service, Silver Spring, MD, USA). Mapping and calculation of autocorrelation spatial analysis were conducted using ArcGIS software version 9.3 (Esri, Redlands, CA, USA). LISA, Local Index of Spatial Association.

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