A Model of Malaria Epidemiology Involving Weather, Exposure and Transmission Applied to North East India

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Goswami, Prashant ^a   Murty, Upadhayula Suryanarayana ^b   Mutheneni, Srinivasa Rao ^b   Kukkuthady, Avinash ^a   Krishnan, Swathi Trithala ^a  

^a CSIR Centre for Mathematical Modelling and Computer Simulation   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CALIBRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; EPIDEMIC; EXPOSURE VARIABLE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMIDITY; INDIA; MALARIA; MEDICAL PARAMETERS; METEOROLOGICAL PHENOMENA; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VECTOR; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; POPULATION RESEARCH; TREND STUDY; VALIDATION PROCESS; WEATHER;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; INDIA; INSECT VECTORS; MALARIA; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SEASONS; SPATIO-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WEATHER;

EID: 84870263378     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0049713     Document Type: Article

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