Re-examining environmental correlates of Plasmodium falciparum Malaria endemicity: A data-intensive variable selection approach

Malaria Journal

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Weiss, Daniel J ^a   Mappin, Bonnie ^a   Dalrymple, Ursula ^a   Bhatt, Samir ^a   Cameron, Ewan ^a   Hay, Simon I ^a,b   Gething, Peter W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Africa; Malaria mapping; Plasmodium falciparum

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; LAND USE; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; NONHUMAN; PARASITE CONTROL; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRECIPITATION; PREVALENCE; TEMPERATURE; VEGETATION; AFRICA; ENVIRONMENT; GEOGRAPHIC MAPPING; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; META ANALYSIS; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RISK; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; THEORETICAL MODEL;

AFRICA; ENDEMIC DISEASES; ENVIRONMENT; GEOGRAPHIC MAPPING; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; RISK; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84928737132     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12936-015-0574-x     Document Type: Article

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