Spatial outline of malaria transmission in Iran

Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 789-795

  Barati, Mohammad ^a   Keshavarz Valian, Hossein ^a   Habibi Nokhandan, Majid ^b   Raeisi, Ahmad ^c   Faraji, Leyla ^c   Salahi Moghaddam, Abdoreza ^d  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b Climatological Research Institute   (Iran)

^c Center for Diseases Management and Control Tehran   (Iran)

^d HORMOZGAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; GIS; Iran; Malaria; Mapping; MEWS

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; IRAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALTITUDE; CLIMATE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ECOLOGY; HUMANS; HUMIDITY; INCIDENCE; IRAN; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LINEAR MODELS; MALARIA; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RAIN; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84867193772     PISSN: 19957645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1995-7645(12)60145-X     Document Type: Article

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