Risk profiling of schistosomiasis using remote sensing: Approaches, challenges and outlook

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Walz, Yvonne ^a,b   Wegmann, Martin ^a   Dech, Stefan ^a,c   Raso, Giovanna ^d,e   Utzinger, Jürg ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNITED NATIONS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^d SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Ecology; Epidemiology; Geographical information system; Intermediate host snail; Remote sensing; Risk profiling; Scale; Schistosomiasis; Spatial modelling

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECOLOGY; HUMAN; INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH; INTERMEDIATE HOST; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; REMOTE SENSING; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SNAIL; SPECIES HABITAT; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ANIMAL; RISK FACTOR;

GASTROPODA; SCHISTOSOMA;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ANIMALS; HUMANS; REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY; RISK FACTORS; SCHISTOSOMIASIS;

EID: 84928481560     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13071-015-0732-6     Document Type: Review

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