Scrub typhus is a vector-borne zoonotic disease with the potential of causing life-threatening febrile infection in humans. The disease is caused by a Gram-negative bacterium,Orientia tsutsugamushi, and is transmitted by the larval stage of mites (“chiggers”) in the family Trombiculidae. Scrub...
All the parameters here have the same meaning as before. Z-test was also performed to calculate the z-score which determines the significance level of clusters. A high positive z-score for a county indicates that the surrounding counties have similar incidences (either High-High or Low-Low)....