Mapping environmental dimensions of dengue fever transmission risk in the Aburrá Valley, Colombia

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 3040-3055

  Arboleda, Sair ^a   Jaramillo O , Nicolas ^a   Peterson, A Townsend ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE ANTIOQUIA   (Colombia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Dengue fever; Ecological niche modeling; Geographic information systems; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COLOMBIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENGUE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; INFECTION RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; VEGETATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

EID: 74549141758     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16604601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ijerph6123040     Document Type: Article

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