Mobile phones and malaria: Modeling human and parasite travel

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 15-22

  Buckee, Caroline O ^a   Wesolowski, Amy ^b   Eagle, Nathan N ^a,c   Hansen, Elsa ^a   Snow, Robert W ^d,e  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Northeastern University   (United States)

^d KEMRI WELLCOME TRUST RESEARCH PROGRAMME   (Kenya)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Human mobility; Malaria; Mobile phones; Parasite importation

Indexed keywords

DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; MALARIA; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOBILE PHONE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NONHUMAN; PARASITE PREVALENCE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SAMPLING ERROR;

ANIMALS; CELLULAR PHONE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; CULICIDAE; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MOSQUITO CONTROL; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; TRAVEL;

EID: 84875696598     PISSN: 14778939     EISSN: 18730442     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2012.12.003     Document Type: Review

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