Linking environmental variability to village-scale malaria transmission using a simple immunity model

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Yamana, Teresa K ^a   Bomblies, Arne ^b   Laminou, Ibrahim M ^c   Duchemin, Jean Bernard ^c   Eltahir, Elfatih A B ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b University of Vermont   (United States)

^c International Network of the Pasteur Institute   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Africa; Anopheles; Immunity; Malaria; Model

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ARTICLE; BITE; BLOOD SMEAR; CHILD; HUMAN; HYDROLOGY; MALARIA; MOSQUITO; PARASITE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREVALENCE; TEMPERATURE; TOPOGRAPHY; ZOOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLIMATE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CULICIDAE; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALARIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NIGER; PLASMODIUM; PREVALENCE; RURAL POPULATION; SPATIO-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84881066260     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-6-226     Document Type: Article

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