Beyond temperature and precipitation: Ecological risk factors that modify malaria transmission

Acta Tropica

Volumn 116, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 167-172

  Stresman, Gillian H ^a  

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

Author keywords

Environmental risk factors; Malaria; Precipitation; Temperature

Indexed keywords

DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK; MALARIA; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RISK FACTOR; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

AGRICULTURE; ANOPHELES; BREEDING; DEFORESTATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; MICROCLIMATE; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITE VECTOR; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRECIPITATION; PREDICTION; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER QUALITY;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; CLIMATE; CULICIDAE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; MALARIA; RISK FACTORS; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 77957751841     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2010.08.005     Document Type: Review

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