Habitat suitability and ecological niche profile of major malaria vectors in Cameroon

Malaria Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Ayala, Diego ^a   Costantini, Carlo ^a,b   Ose, Kenji ^a   Kamdem, Guy C ^b   Antonio Nkondjio, Christophe ^b   Agbor, Jean Pierre ^b   Awono Ambene, Parfait ^b   Fontenille, Didier ^a   Simard, Frédéric ^a,c  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^b Organisation de Coordination pour la Lutte contre les Endemies en Afrique Centrale Cameroon   (Cameroon)

^c IRSS ^*  (Burkina Faso)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOPHELES; ARTICLE; CAMEROON; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CARRIER; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HABITAT QUALITY; LAND USE; MALARIA; NONHUMAN; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; TOPOGRAPHY; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; CLIMATE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; RURAL POPULATION;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; CAMEROON; CLIMATE; DISEASE VECTORS; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; HUMANS; MALARIA; RURAL POPULATION;

EID: 76749162344     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-8-307     Document Type: Article

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