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Volume 23, Number 12—December 2017
Research

Distribution of Usutu Virus in Germany and Its Effect on Breeding Bird Populations

Renke LühkenComments to Author , Hanna Jöst, Daniel Cadar, Stephanie Margarete Thomas, Stefan Bosch, Egbert Tannich, Norbert Becker, Ute Ziegler, Lars Lachmann, and Jonas Schmidt-Chanasit

Author affiliations: Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Arbovirus and Hemorrhagic Fever Reference and Research, Hamburg, Germany (R. Lühken, H. Jöst, D. Cadar, E. Tannich, J. Schmidt-Chanasit); German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), partner site Hamburg-Luebeck-Borstel, Hamburg (H. Jöst, E. Tannich, J. Schmidt-Chanasit); University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany (S.M. Thomas); Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union (NABU), Stuttgart, Germany (S. Bosch); Institute for Dipterology, Speyer, Germany (N. Becker); University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany (N. Becker); Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Greifswald-Insel Riems, Germany (U. Ziegler); Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union (NABU), Berlin, Germany (L. Lachmann)

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Figure 2

Areas suitable (green) and unsuitable (white) for Usutu virus (USUV) in Germany derived from 300 boosted regression tree models. Black dots denote sites with dead birds detected positive for USUV.

Figure 2. Areas suitable (green) and unsuitable (white) for Usutu virus (USUV) in Germany derived from 300 boosted regression tree models. Black dots denote sites with dead birds detected positive for USUV.

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