Estimating Air Temperature and Its Influence on Malaria Transmission across Africa

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Garske, Tini ^a   Ferguson, Neil M ^a   Ghani, Azra C ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; AIR TEMPERATURE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; LAND USE; MALARIA; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; SEASONAL VARIATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURFACE SOIL; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

AFRICA; AIR; ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; INSECT VECTORS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; SEASONS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84874274867     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0056487     Document Type: Article

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