Modeling the effects of weather and climate change on malaria transmission

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 118, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 620-626

  Parham, Paul Edward ^a   Michael, Edwin ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Basic reproduction number; Climate change; Invasion dynamics; Malaria transmission; Mathematical modeling

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; EPIDEMIC; INFECTION RATE; MALARIA; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; TANZANIA; WEATHER;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; MALARIA; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALARIA, VIVAX; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASONS; TANZANIA; WEATHER;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX;

EID: 77951748094     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.0901256     Document Type: Article

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