Global malaria maps and climate change: A focus on East African highlands

Trends in Parasitology

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 421-422

  Bouma, Menno J ^a   Baeza, Andres ^b   terVeen, Annemarie ^a   Pascual, Mercedes ^b,c  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; CLIMATE CHANGE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; LETTER; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; PARASITE TRANSMISSION;

AFRICA, EASTERN; ALTITUDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; HUMANS; MALARIA; MAPS AS TOPIC; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PREVALENCE; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 80052937494     PISSN: 14714922     EISSN: 14715007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pt.2011.07.003     Document Type: Letter

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