Using Mobile Phone Data to Predict the Spatial Spread of Cholera

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Bengtsson, Linus ^a,b   Gaudart, Jean ^c   Lu, Xin ^a,b,d   Moore, Sandra ^c   Wetter, Erik ^b,e   Sallah, Kankoe ^c   Rebaudet, Stanislas ^c   Piarroux, Renaud ^c  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b FLOWMINDER FOUNDATION   (Sweden)

^c AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^e STOCKHOLM SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLERA; EPIDEMIC; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; GEOGRAPHIC MAPPING; HAITI; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MOBILE PHONE; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UTILIZATION;

CELL PHONES; CHOLERA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GEOGRAPHIC MAPPING; HAITI; HUMANS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPATIO-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84924390418     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep08923     Document Type: Article

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