EstZoonoticTB: an R package for exploring, visualising and estimating the global zoonotic tuberculosis burden

EstZoonoticTB is an R package containing data relevant to global zoonotic tuberculosis (TB), tools for manipulating and visualising these data, and analysis aiming to improve country level estimates of zoonotic TB. Packaged datasets include: cleaned data from a recent systematic review; data on the country specific epidemiology of TB; demographic data (including data on the rural populations); animal demographic data; and data on the presence of zoonotic TB in animal populations (both domesticated and wild). Tooling includes functions for linking the built in datasets (built with the aim of accommodating external data sources), data mappping functions, and conveniance functions for manipulating the linked datasets. The long term aim of the package is to provide a suite of data and tools that can be used to iteratively improve the estimation of global zoonotic TB burden. A secondary aim is to provide a user friendly interface to zoonotic TB relevant data in order to help spread awareness of zoonotic TB. See the package vignettes for further details.

Global Zoonotic Tuberculosis Burden, rstats, Tuberculosis, Bovine Tuberculosis, Zoonotic Tuberculosis