Using geographic information systems and decision support systems for the prediction, prevention, and control of vector-borne diseases

Annual Review of Entomology

Volumn 56, Issue , 2011, Pages 41-61

  Eisen, Lars ^a   Eisen, Rebecca J ^b  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

dengue; GIS; Lyme borreliosis; malaria; modeling; plague; risk map; West Nile virus disease

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL;

ANIMALS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; DISEASE VECTORS; HUMANS;

IXODIDA; SIPHONAPTERA (FLEAS); WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 78650856550     PISSN: 00664170     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-ento-120709-144847     Document Type: Article

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