We thank the California Landscape Conservation Cooperative, USGS Climate and Land Use Change Program, and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation for supporting a founding Pacific Coastal Fog Project workshop (Menlo Park, Calif., 2012); the Cary Institute for «Fog - as - a System» workshop facilitation (Pescadero, Calif., 2013); and Lisa Micheli (Dwight Center for Conservation Science at Pepperwood) for sentinel site support and for reviewing earlier drafts of this article. (eos.org)
When spatial heterogeneity is high, different villages may have very different prevalence and the use of sentinel sites to determine regional elimination will not give an accurate picture. (sciencedaily.com)
About 18,711 samples which were collected nationwide for the report and drawn from 40 sentinel sites strategically located at 17 rural sites, 23 urban sites and 69 antenatal clinics within a period of four months, spanning September to December 2017. (ghanapoliticsonline.com)