Raised temperatures over the Kericho tea estates: Revisiting the climate in the East African highlands malaria debate

Malaria Journal

Volumn 10, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Omumbo, Judith A ^a   Lyon, Bradfield ^a   Waweru, Samuel M ^b   Connor, Stephen J ^a   Thomson, Madeleine C ^a  

^a Earth Institute   (United States)

^b KENYA METEOROLOGICAL DEPARTMENT   (Kenya)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; EL NINO; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; MALARIA; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONAL VARIATION; TROPIC CLIMATE; CLIMATE; INCIDENCE; KENYA; TEMPERATURE;

CLIMATE; INCIDENCE; KENYA; MALARIA; RAIN; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 78651409267     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-10-12     Document Type: Article

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