Spatially explicit Schistosoma infection risk in eastern Africa using Bayesian geostatistical modelling

Acta Tropica

Volumn 128, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 365-377

  Schur, Nadine ^a,b   Hürlimann, Eveline ^a,b,c   Stensgaard, Anna Sofie ^d   Chimfwembe, Kingford ^e   Mushinge, Gabriel ^e   Simoonga, Christopher ^f   Kabatereine, Narcis B ^g   Kristensen, Thomas K ^d   Utzinger, Jürg ^a,b   Vounatsou, Penelope ^a,b  

^a SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c CENTRE SUISSE DE RECHERCHES SCIENTIFIQUES EN CÔTE D'IVOIRE   (Côte d’Ivoire)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ZAMBIA   (Zambia)

^f MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Zambia)

^g MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Uganda)

Author keywords

Bayesian geostatistics; East Africa; Markov chain Monte Carlo simulation; Risk mapping and prediction; Schistosoma haematobium; Schistosoma mansoni; Schistosomiasis

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE PREVALENCE; GEOSTATISTICS; MARKOV CHAIN; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCHISTOSOMIASIS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOSTATISTICS; BURUNDI; CLIMATE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COVARIANCE; DJIBOUTI; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ERITREA; ETHIOPIA; GEOSTATISTICAL ANALYSIS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; KENYA; MOZAMBIQUE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RWANDA; SCHISTOSOMA HEMATOBIUM; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS HAEMATOBIA; SCHISTOSOMIASIS MANSONI; SOMALIA; STATISTICAL MODEL; SUDAN; TANZANIA; TROPICAL DISEASE; UGANDA;

EAST AFRICA;

SCHISTOSOMA; SCHISTOSOMA HAEMATOBIUM; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI;

BAYESIAN CREDIBLE INTERVAL; BAYESIAN GEOSTATISTICS; BCI; CI; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; EARTH RESOURCES OBSERVATION; EAST AFRICA; EROS; GLOBAL NEGLECTED TROPICAL DISEASE DATABASE; GNTD DATABASE; HII; HUMAN INFLUENCE INDEX; INTERNATIONAL SOIL REFERENCE AND INFORMATION CENTER; ISRIC; LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE; LST; MAE; MARKOV CHAIN MONTE CARLO; MARKOV CHAIN MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; MCMC; ME; MEAN ABSOLUTE ERROR; MEAN ERROR; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; MODIS; NDVI; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; ODDS RATIO; OR; RISK MAPPING AND PREDICTION; SCHISTOSOMA HAEMATOBIUM; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SD; SEDAC; SOCIOECONOMIC DATA AND APPLICATIONS CENTER; STANDARD DEVIATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICA, EASTERN; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCHISTOSOMA HAEMATOBIUM; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS MANSONI; TOPOGRAPHY, MEDICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84879085302     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: 18736254     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2011.10.006     Document Type: Article

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