International population movements and regional Plasmodium falciparum malaria elimination strategies

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 27, 2010, Pages 12222-12227

  Tatem, Andrew J ^a   Smitha, David L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Community detection; Eradication; Imported malaria; Migration; Network analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GEOGRAPHY; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; MIGRATION; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; POPULATION DYNAMICS; WORLD HEALTH;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 77955449196     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1002971107     Document Type: Article

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