Spatial analysis of Aedes aegypti immatures in Northern Argentina: Clusters and temporal instability

Acta Tropica

Volumn 128, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 461-467

  Garelli, Fernando M ^a   Espinosa, Manuel O ^b   Gürtler, Ricardo E ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b Fundacion Mundo Sano   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Aedes aegypti; Dengue; Spatial statistics

Indexed keywords

TEMEFOS;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DENGUE FEVER; ENTOMOLOGY; HABITAT QUALITY; MOSQUITO; NEIGHBORHOOD; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

AEDES AEGYPTI; ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HABITAT QUALITY; HABITAT STRUCTURE; INFESTATION; NONHUMAN; PUPA (LIFE CYCLE STAGE); PUPATION; SOIL TREATMENT; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL POINT PATTERN ANALYSIS; SPATIO TEMPORAL GLOBAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; ZOOLOGY;

ARGENTINA;

AEDES AEGYPTI; CLORINDA;

AEDES AEGYPTI; DENGUE; SPATIAL STATISTICS;

AEDES; ANIMALS; ARGENTINA; DATA COLLECTION; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84892532943     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: 18736254     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2013.07.019     Document Type: Article

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