Spatio-temporal malaria transmission patterns in Navrongo demographic surveillance site, northern Ghana

Malaria Journal

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Kasasa, Simon ^a,b,c   Asoala, Victor ^d   Gosoniu, Laura ^a,b   Anto, Francis ^e   Adjuik, Martin ^f   Tindana, Cletus ^d   Smith, Thomas ^a,b   Owusu Agyei, Seth ^g   Vounatsou, Penelope ^a,b  

^a SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c MAKERERE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Uganda)

^d NAVRONGO HEALTH RESEARCH CENTRE   (Ghana)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GHANA   (Ghana)

^f Iganga Mayuge Health and Demographic Surveillance Site   (Ghana)

^g MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Ghana)

Author keywords

Entomological inoculation rate; Malaria; Malaria Transmission Intensity and Mortality Burden Across Africa (MTIMBA) project; Spatio temporal; Zero inflated

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TRAPPING; ANOPHELES FUNESTUS; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ARTICLE; BAYESIAN LEARNING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GEOGRAPHY; GEOSTATISTICAL ANALYSIS; GHANA; HUMAN; INOCULATION; INSECT BITE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALARIA; MOSQUITO; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; POPULATION DENSITY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPOROZOITE; WETLAND; ZOOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; GEOGRAPHY; GHANA; HUMANS; MALARIA; POPULATION DENSITY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84875921547     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-12-63     Document Type: Article

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