Expansion of the cassava brown streak pandemic in Uganda revealed by annual field survey data for 2004 to 2017
Authors
Omongo, Christopher A.
Abidrabo, Phillip
Okao-Okuja, Geoffrey
Baguma, Yona
Ogwok, Emmanuel
Kawuki, Robert
Esuma, Williams
Tairo, Fred
Bua, Anton
Legg, James P.
Stutt, Richard O. J. H.
Godding, David
Sseruwagi, Peter
Ndunguru, Joseph
Publication Date
2019-12-18Journal Title
Scientific Data
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group UK
Volume
6
Issue
1
Language
en
Type
Article
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Alicai, T., Szyniszewska, A. M., Omongo, C. A., Abidrabo, P., Okao-Okuja, G., Baguma, Y., Ogwok, E., et al. (2019). Expansion of the cassava brown streak pandemic in Uganda revealed by annual field survey data for 2004 to 2017. Scientific Data, 6 (1) https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-019-0334-9
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Funder: Uganda Government Association for Strengthening Agricultural Research in Eastern and Central Africa
Funder: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation)
Abstract
Abstract: Cassava brown streak disease (CBSD) is currently the most devastating cassava disease in eastern, central and southern Africa affecting a staple crop for over 700 million people on the continent. A major outbreak of CBSD in 2004 near Kampala rapidly spread across Uganda. In the following years, similar CBSD outbreaks were noted in countries across eastern and central Africa, and now the disease poses a threat to West Africa including Nigeria - the biggest cassava producer in the world. A comprehensive dataset with 7,627 locations, annually and consistently sampled between 2004 and 2017 was collated from historic paper and electronic records stored in Uganda. The survey comprises multiple variables including data for incidence and symptom severity of CBSD and abundance of the whitefly vector (Bemisia tabaci). This dataset provides a unique basis to characterize the epidemiology and dynamics of CBSD spread in order to inform disease surveillance and management. We also describe methods used to integrate and verify extensive field records for surveys typical of emerging epidemics in subsistence crops.
Keywords
Data Descriptor, /631/449/1659, /706/134, /706/1143, data-descriptor
Sponsorship
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation) (OPP1052391, OPP1052391, OPP1052391, OPP1052391, OPP1052391, OPP1052391)
World Bank Group (World Bank) (MSI/WA1/2/16/08)
Identifiers
s41597-019-0334-9, 334
External DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-019-0334-9
This record's URL: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/315433
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Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Licence URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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