Climatic variables and malaria transmission dynamics in Jimma town, South West Ethiopia

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Alemu, Abebe ^a,b   Abebe, Gemeda ^a,c   Tsegaye, Wondewossen ^a   Golassa, Lemu ^a  

^a JIMMA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GONDAR   (Ethiopia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

ANTIMALARIAL DRUG RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ETHIOPIA; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; INCIDENCE; MALARIA; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; METEOROLOGICAL PHENOMENA; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PLASMODIUM VIVAX MALARIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEASONAL VARIATION; TEMPERATURE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; CLIMATE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; SEASON; STATISTICAL MODEL;

EQUUS ASINUS;

CLIMATE; ETHIOPIA; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALARIA; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEASONS;

EID: 79952098718     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-4-30     Document Type: Article

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