Spatial and temporal patterns of enzootic raccoon rabies adjusted for multiple covariates

摘要: Background With the objective of identifying spatial and temporal patterns enzootic raccoon variant rabies, a scan statistic was utilized to search for significant terrestrial rabies clusters by year in New York State 1997–2003. Cluster analyses were unadjusted other factors, adjusted covariates, covariates large scale geographic variation (LSGV). Adjustments intended identify unusual aggregations cases given expected distribution based on observed locations.