An exploratory GIS-based method to identify and characterise landscapes with an elevated epidemiological risk of Rhodesian human African trypanosomiasis

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 12, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Wardrop, Nicola A ^a   Fèvre, Eric M ^b   Atkinson, Peter M ^a   Kakembo, Abbas S L ^c   Welburn, Susan C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Uganda)

Author keywords

Disease ecology; GIS; Glossina fuscipes; Landscape epidemiology; Sleeping sickness; Spatial epidemiology; Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense; Tsetse

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; INFANT; INFECTION RISK; LANDSCAPE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCHOOL CHILD; UGANDA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOPOGRAPHY, MEDICAL; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI RHODESIENSE; TRYPANOSOMIASIS, AFRICAN; UGANDA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84869234730     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-12-316     Document Type: Article

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