Mapping malaria in municipalities of the Coffee Triangle region of Colombia using Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

Journal of Infection and Public Health

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 603-611

  Rodríguez Morales, Alfonso J ^a,b   Orrego Acevedo, César A ^a   Zambrano Muñoz, Yazmin ^a   García Folleco, Francisco J ^a   Herrera Giraldo, Albert C ^a,c   Lozada Riascos, Carlos O ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD TECNOLÓGICA DE PEREIRA   (Colombia)

^b ACIN ^*  (Colombia)

^c Operative Direction of Public Health Risaralda Department Secretary of Health   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Colombia; Epidemiology; Geographic Information Systems; Malaria; Maps

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COLOMBIA; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MIXED INFECTION; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM MALARIAE; PLASMODIUM MALARIAE INFECTION; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PLASMODIUM VIVAX MALARIA; POVERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RURAL AREA; URBAN AREA; CITY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY; TOPOGRAPHY;

CITIES; COLOMBIA; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALARIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM MALARIAE; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; TOPOGRAPHY, MEDICAL;

EID: 84943456857     PISSN: 18760341     EISSN: 1876035X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jiph.2015.05.011     Document Type: Article

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