Spatial analysis and factors associated with leptospirosis in Santa Catarina, Brazil, 2001-2015.
Ana Elisa Pereira SilvaGleice Margarete de Souza ConceiçãoFrancisco Chiaravalloti NetoPublished in: Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical (2020)
The incidence of leptospirosis in Santa Catarina was associated with environmental factors, particularly low altitude, even when considering the spatial dependence structure present in the data. The spatial error model allowed for adequate modeling of spatial autocorrelation.
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