An empirical malaria distribution map for West Africa

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 779-786

  Kleinschmidt, Immo ^a   Omumbo, Judy ^b   Brit, Olivier ^c   Van De Giesen, Nick ^d   Sogoba, Nafomon ^e   Mensah, Nathan Kumasenu ^f   Windmeijer, Pieter ^g   Moussa, Mahaman ^c   Teuscher, Thomas ^c  

^a SOUTH AFRICAN MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (South Africa)

^b KEMRI WELLCOME TRUST RESEARCH PROGRAMME   (Kenya)

^c AFRICA RICE CENTER AFRICARICE   (Côte d’Ivoire)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BAMAKO   (Mali)

^f NAVRONGO HEALTH RESEARCH CENTRE   (Ghana)

^g NONE

Author keywords

Geographic Information Systems (GIS); Malaria control; Malaria prevalence; Mapping; Spatial statistics

Indexed keywords

DATABASE; DISEASE PREVALENCE; HEALTH RISK; MALARIA; PARASITE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; PARASITE PREVALENCE; POPULATION; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; AFRICA, WESTERN; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH PLANNING; HUMANS; INFANT; MALARIA; MALE; MAPS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREVALENCE; TOPOGRAPHY, MEDICAL;

AFRICA;

ARA; ARMA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0034772041     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3156.2001.00790.x     Document Type: Article

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