Patterns of intestinal schistosomiasis among mothers and young children from Lake Albert, Uganda: Water contact and social networks inferred from wearable global positioning system dataloggers

Geospatial Health

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-13

  Seto, Edmund Y W ^a   Sousa Figueiredo, José C ^b,c   Betson, Martha ^b   Byalero, Chris ^d   Kabatereine, Narcis B ^d   Russell Stothard, J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^d MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Uganda)

Author keywords

Exposure; Global positioning system; Household contact; Schistosoma mansoni; Spatial temporal interactions; Uganda; Water contact behaviours

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875484029     PISSN: 18271987     EISSN: 19707096     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4081/gh.2012.99     Document Type: Article

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