The receptive versus current risks of Plasmodium falciparum transmission in Northern Namibia: Implications for elimination

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Noor, Abdisalan M ^a,b   Uusiku, Petrina ^d   Kamwi, Richard N ^c   Katokele, Stark ^d   Ntomwa, Benson ^d   Alegana, Victor A ^a   Snow, Robert W ^a,b  

^a KEMRI WELLCOME TRUST RESEARCH PROGRAMME   (Kenya)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c Ministry of Health and Social Services   (Namibia)

^d National Vector borne Diseases Control Programme   (Namibia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOPHELES ARABIENSIS; ANOPHELES FUNESTUS; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT; COMPUTER PREDICTION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONTROLLED STUDY; CURRENT RISK; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENDEMIC DISEASE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA CONTROL; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NAMIBIA; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; RECEPTIVE RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES ENDEMICITY;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; BAYES THEOREM; DISEASE ERADICATION; GEOGRAPHY, MEDICAL; HUMANS; INSECT CONTROL; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; NAMIBIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PREVALENCE; RISK; SPATIO-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84876701271     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-13-184     Document Type: Article

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