Spatial prediction of malaria prevalence in an endemic area of Bangladesh

Malaria Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Haque, Ubydul ^a,d   Magalhães, Ricardo ^b   Reid, Heidi L ^b   Clements, Archie C A ^b   Ahmed, Syed ^c   Islam, Akramul ^c   Yamamoto, Taro ^d   Haque, Rashidul ^a   Glass, Gregory E ^e  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH   (Bangladesh)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c RESEARCH AND EVALUATION DIVISION   (Bangladesh)

^d NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; BAYES THEOREM; BED NET; CHILD; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FEMALE; FOREST; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; GEOSTATISTICAL ANALYSIS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; REMOTE SENSING; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; SOCIAL STATUS; CLIMATE; GEOGRAPHY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; PARASITOLOGY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BANGLADESH; BAYES THEOREM; CLIMATE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 77951969851     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-9-120     Document Type: Article

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