Hitting a moving target: A model for malaria elimination in the presence of population movement

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 2015, Pages

  Silal, Sheetal Prakash ^a   Little, Francesca ^a   Barnes, Karen Irma ^a   White, Lisa Jane ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; MALARIA; MOZAMBIQUE; PARASITE CLEARANCE; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; POPULATION MOVEMENT PATTERN; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PREDICTION; SCREENING TEST; SOUTH AFRICA; VECTOR CONTROL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FEMALE; MALE; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MALARIA; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOZAMBIQUE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 84958214075     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0144990     Document Type: Article

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