The use of mobile phone data for the estimation of the travel patterns and imported plasmodium falciparum rates among zanzibar residents

Malaria Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Tatem, Andrew J ^a   Qiu, Youliang ^a   Smith, David L ^a   Sabot, Oliver ^b   Ali, Abdullah S ^c   Moonen, Bruno ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b William J Clinton Foundation   (United States)

^c Ministry of Health Zanzibar   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENDEMIC DISEASE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOBILE PHONE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; TANZANIA; ANIMAL; HEALTH SURVEY; PARASITOLOGY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS; TIME; TRAVEL;

ANIMALS; CELLULAR PHONE; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; TANZANIA; TIME FACTORS; TRAVEL;

EID: 74549172135     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-8-287     Document Type: Article

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