High resolution niche models of malaria vectors in Northern Tanzania: A new capacity to predict malaria risk?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Kulkarni, Manisha A ^a   Desrochers, Rachelle E ^a   Kerr, Jeremy T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AFRICA; ANOPHELES; ARTICLE; CHILD; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; HUMAN; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; PARASITE VECTOR; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; RISK; SCHOOL CHILD; SEASONAL VARIATION; TANZANIA; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; CLIMATE; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; PARASITOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEASON; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TEMPERATURE;

ANOPHELES ARABIENSIS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEASONS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TANZANIA; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 77949755723     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0009396     Document Type: Article

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