The applications of model-based geostatistics in helminth epidemiology and control

Advances in Parasitology

Volumn 74, Issue C, 2011, Pages 267-296

  Magalhães, Ricardo J Soares ^a   Clements, Archie C A ^a,b   Patil, Anand P ^c   Gething, Peter W ^c   Brooker, Simon ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d KEMRI WELLCOME TRUST RESEARCH PROGRAMME   (Kenya)

^e LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOOK; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOSTATISTICAL ANALYSIS; HELMINTHIASIS; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RISK; LYMPHATIC FILARIASIS; ONCHOCERCIASIS; PARASITE CONTROL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

LAKE VICTORIA MARBURGVIRUS; VERMES;

EID: 79551510075     PISSN: 0065308X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-385897-9.00005-7     Document Type: Chapter

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