A comparison of five malaria transmission models: Benchmark tests and implications for disease control

Malaria Journal

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Wallace, Dorothy I ^a   Southworth, Ben S ^b   Shi, Xun ^a   Chipman, Jonathan W ^a   Githeko, Andrew K ^c  

^a Dartmouth College   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c KENYA MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Disease control; Entomological inoculation rate; Epidemiology; Malaria; Mathematical model; Sensitivity analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROL STRATEGY; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE MODEL; INOCULATION; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; PREDICTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EVALUATION STUDY; HUMAN; MOSQUITO; PROCEDURES; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; HUMANS; MALARIA; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOSQUITO CONTROL;

EID: 84903866266     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-13-268     Document Type: Article

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