Mapping the densities of malaria vectors within a single village

Acta Tropica

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 1995, Pages 1-18

  Smith, T ^a,b   Charlwood, J D ^b   Takken, W ^c   Tanner, M ^a   Spiegelhalter, D J ^d  

^a SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b Ifakara Centre PO Box 53 Ifakara Tanzania Netherlands ^*

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anopheles funestus; Anopheles gambiae; Bayesian model; Conditional autoregressive model; Gibbs sampling; Inoculation rate; Spatial analysis; Tanzania

Indexed keywords

ANOPHELES; ARTICLE; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VECTOR; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POPULATION DENSITY; RURAL AREA; SAMPLING; STATISTICAL MODEL; TANZANIA;

ANIMAL; ANOPHELES; BAYES THEOREM; HUMAN; INSECT VECTORS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POPULATION DENSITY; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TANZANIA;

ANIMALIA; ANOPHELES FUNESTUS; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 0028931617     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0001-706X(94)00082-C     Document Type: Article

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