Short communication: Negative spatial association between lymphatic filariasis and malaria in West Africa

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 129-135

  Kelly Hope, Louise A ^a   Diggle, Peter J ^b   Rowlingson, Barry S ^b   Gyapong, John O ^c   Kyelem, Dominique ^d   Coleman, Michael ^a   Thomson, Madeleine C ^e   Obsomer, Valerie ^f   Lindsay, Steve W ^g   Hemingway, Janet ^a   Molyneux, David H ^a  

^a LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Ghana)

^d MINISTÈRE DE LA SANTÉ   (Burkina Faso)

^e Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^f INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^g DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anopheles; Climate; Environment; Epidemiology; Geographical information systems; Lymphatic filariasis; Malaria; Statistical modelling; Transmission; West Africa

Indexed keywords

DISEASE PREVALENCE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FILARIASIS; GIS; MALARIA; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

AFRICA; ANOPHELES; ARTICLE; CLIMATE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FILARIASIS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; LYMPHATIC FILARIASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MOSQUITO; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PREVALENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; VEGETATION; WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI;

AFRICA, WESTERN; ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; CLIMATE; ELEPHANTIASIS, FILARIAL; ENDEMIC DISEASES; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; INSECTICIDE RESISTANCE; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PREVALENCE; SPACE-TIME CLUSTERING; WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI;

AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA;

WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI;

EID: 33644983333     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: 13653156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2005.01558.x     Document Type: Article

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