Environmental and socio-economic risk modelling for Chagas disease in Bolivia

Geospatial Health

Volumn 6, Issue 3 SUPPL., 2012, Pages

  Mischler, Paula ^a   Kearney, Michael ^a   Mccarroll, Jennifer C ^a   Scholte, Ronaldo G C ^b,c   Vounatsou, Penelope ^b,c   Malone, John B ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bolivia; Chagas disease; Ecological niche model; Geographical information system; Maximum entropy; Remote sensing; Risk maps; Trypanosoma cruzi

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867073514     PISSN: 18271987     EISSN: 19707096     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4081/gh.2012.123     Document Type: Article

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