Indian Ocean Dipole drives malaria resurgence in East African highlands

Scientific Reports

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Hashizume, Masahiro ^a   Chaves, Luis Fernando ^b   Minakawa, Noboru ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; INDIAN OCEAN; MALARIA; WATER FLOW;

AFRICA, EASTERN; ALTITUDE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; INDIAN OCEAN; MALARIA; WATER MOVEMENTS;

EID: 84859741835     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep00269     Document Type: Article

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