Modeling malaria as a complex adaptive system

Artificial Life

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 213-236

  Janssen, M A ^a   Martens, W J M ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Climate change; Genetic algorithms; Infectious diseases; Resistance development

Indexed keywords

INSECTICIDE;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLIMATE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG RESISTANCE; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; INSECTICIDE RESISTANCE; MALARIA; MOSQUITO; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; CLIMATE; CULICIDAE; DRUG RESISTANCE; EVOLUTION; HUMANS; INSECTICIDE RESISTANCE; INSECTICIDES; MALARIA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 0031151558     PISSN: 10645462     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/artl.1997.3.3.213     Document Type: Article

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