USE OF SOIL MOISTURE ACTIVE PASSIVE SATELLITE DATA (SMAP) AND WORLDCLIM2 DATA TO PREDICT THE POTENTIAL DISTRIBUTION OF VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS AND ITS VECTOR <em>LUTZOMYIA LONGIPALPIS</em> IN BRAZIL

Malone, John

USE OF SOIL MOISTURE ACTIVE PASSIVE SATELLITE DATA (SMAP) AND WORLDCLIM2 DATA TO PREDICT THE POTENTIAL DISTRIBUTION OF VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS AND ITS VECTOR LUTZOMYIA LONGIPALPIS IN BRAZIL

John Malone jr¹, Moara Martins Rodgers², Elivelton Silva Fonseca³, Prixia del Mar Nieto⁴, Jeffery Luvall⁵, Maria Bavia⁶, Raul Guimaraes⁷ and Jennifer C McCarroll¹, (1)Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, United States, (2)Louisiana State University, Pathobiological Sciences, Baton Rouge, LA, United States, (3)Federal University of Uberlandia, Uberlandia, Brazil, (4)Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, United States, (5)NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, United States, (6)UFBA Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil, (7)UNESP Sao Paulo State University, Presidente Prudente, Brazil