MosquitoMap and the Mal-area calculator: New web tools to relate mosquito species distribution with vector borne disease

International Journal of Health Geographics

Volumn 9, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Foley, Desmond H ^a   Wilkerson, Richard C ^a   Birney, Ian ^b   Harrison, Stanley ^b   Christensen, Jamie ^b   Rueda, Leopoldo M ^a  

^a WALTER REED ARMY INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH   (United States)

^b Worldview Solutions Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATABASE; DISEASE VECTOR; GIS; MAPPING; MOSQUITO; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; WORLD WIDE WEB;

ARTHROPODA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECOSYSTEM; ENDEMIC DISEASE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; INTERNET; MOSQUITO; PARASITOSIS; POPULATION DENSITY;

ANIMALS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; CULICIDAE; ECOSYSTEM; ENDEMIC DISEASES; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; INTERNET; MAPS AS TOPIC; PARASITIC DISEASES; POPULATION DENSITY;

EID: 77949434701     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1476072X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-072X-9-11     Document Type: Article

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