Ecological epidemiology: The role of landscape structure in the transmission risk of the fox tapeworm Echinococcus multilocularis (Leukart 1863) (Cestoda: Cyclophyllidea: Taeniidae)

Progress in Physical Geography

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 77-91

  Graham, Alastair J ^a   Danson, F M ^b   Craig, P S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Echinococcus multilocularis; Landscape ecology; Spatial analysis

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; LANDSCAPE;

EID: 15844384031     PISSN: 03091333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/0309133305pp435ra     Document Type: Article

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