Hot spot or not: A comparison of spatial statistical methods to predict prospective malaria infections

Malaria Journal

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Mosha, Jacklin F ^a   Sturrock, Hugh Jw ^b   Greenwood, Brian ^c   Sutherland, Colin J ^c   Gadalla, Nahla B ^c   Atwal, Sharan ^c   Hemelaar, Simon ^c,d   Brown, Joelle M ^b,e   Drakeley, Chris ^c   Kibiki, Gibson ^f   Bousema, Teun ^c,d   Chandramohan, Daniel ^c   Gosling, Roland D ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Tanzania)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^d RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f KILIMANJARO CHRISTIAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

Africa; Hotspots; Malaria; Micro epidemiology; PCR; Plasmodium falciparum; Serology; Spatial methods; Transmission

Indexed keywords

AMA 1 ANTIBODY; AMA 1 ANTIGEN; ANTIGEN; MSP 1 19 ANTIBODY; MSP 1 19 ANTIGEN; PROTOZOON ANTIBODY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ANTIBODY SEROPOSITIVITY; ANTIBODY TITER; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; GEOSTATISTICAL ANALYSIS; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INFANT; INFECTION RISK; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KERNEL METHOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NESTED POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PARASITE PREVALENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION POSITIVITY; POPULATION SIZE; PREDICTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SATSCAN ANALYSIS; SCHOOL CHILD; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEROPREVALENCE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL SCAN STATISTICS; VERY ELDERLY; WEIGHTED LOCAL PREVALENCE ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; RURAL POPULATION; TANZANIA; TOPOGRAPHY, MEDICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84896707626     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-13-53     Document Type: Article

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