Modeling the biocoenose of parasitic diseases using remote sensing and geographic information systems

Parassitologia

Volumn 46, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 59-61

  Malone, J B ^a   McNally, K L ^a   McCarroll, J C ^a   Corbett, J D ^b   Mkoji, G ^c  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Mudsprings Geographers   (United States)

^c KENYA MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Ecology; Fascioliasis; Geographic information systems; Remote sensing; Schistosomiasis

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS; BUDGET; CONFERENCE PAPER; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; FASCIOLIASIS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; HYDROLOGY; MODEL; PARASITE VECTOR; PARASITOSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SNAIL; AFRICA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMPHALARIA; CLIMATE; DISEASE CARRIER; ECOSYSTEM; FASCIOLA; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; LYMNAEA; METHODOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREVALENCE; SCHISTOSOMA; TELECOMMUNICATION; TOPOGRAPHY;

GASTROPODA;

WATER;

AFRICA; ANIMALS; BIOMPHALARIA; CLIMATE; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; DISEASE VECTORS; ECOSYSTEM; FASCIOLA; FASCIOLIASIS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; HUMANS; LYMNAEA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PREVALENCE; SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS; SCHISTOSOMA; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; TOPOGRAPHY, MEDICAL; WATER;

EID: 4844231753     PISSN: 00482951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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