Tools from ecology: Useful for evaluating infection risk models?

Trends in Parasitology

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 70-74

  Brooker, Simon ^a   Hay, Simon I ^b   Bundy, Don A P ^c  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c WORLD BANK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ECOLOGY; EVALUATION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RISK; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MODEL; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; RELIABILITY; REVIEW; SCHISTOSOMA HEMATOBIUM; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; VALIDATION PROCESS; ZONATION;

AFRICA; ANIMALS; CLIMATE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; ECOLOGY; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK FACTORS; ROC CURVE; SCHISTOSOMA HAEMATOBIUM; SCHISTOSOMIASIS HAEMATOBIA; SCHISTOSOMICIDES;

SCHISTOSOMA; SCHISTOSOMA HAEMATOBIUM; TREMATODA;

EID: 0036164985     PISSN: 14714922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1471-4922(01)02223-1     Document Type: Review

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