The use of remote sensing in the identification of the eco-environmental factors associated with the risk of human visceral leishmaniasis (kala-azar) on the Gangetic plain, in north-eastern India

Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology

Volumn 104, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 35-53

  Bhunia, G S ^a   Kumar, V ^a   Kumar, A J ^a   Das, P ^a   Kesari, S ^a  

^a RAJENDRA MEMORIAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FOREST; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; INDIA; INFECTION RISK; NONHUMAN; PARASITE INCIDENCE; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PSYCHODIDAE; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL; SOIL ANALYSIS; URBAN AREA; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS; WATERSHED;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INDIA; INSECT VECTORS; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; LEISHMANIASIS, VISCERAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PSYCHODIDAE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS; TELEMETRY; TOPOGRAPHY, MEDICAL;

LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; NASO HEXACANTHUS;

EID: 77949472259     PISSN: 00034983     EISSN: 13648594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/136485910X12607012373678     Document Type: Article

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