Advances in mapping malaria for elimination: Fine resolution modelling of Plasmodium falciparum incidence

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Alegana, Victor A ^a,b   Atkinson, Peter M ^a,c,d   Lourenço, Christopher ^a,e   Ruktanonchai, Nick W ^a,b   Bosco, Claudio ^a,b   Erbach Schoenberg, Elisabeth Zu ^a,b   Didier, Bradley ^e   Pindolia, Deepa ^e   Le Menach, Arnaud ^e   Katokele, Stark ^f   Uusiku, Petrina ^f   Tatem, Andrew J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b FLOWMINDER FOUNDATION   (Sweden)

^c LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^e CLINTON HEALTH ACCESS INITIATIVE   (United States)

^f Ministry of Health and Social Services   (Namibia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAYES THEOREM; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; NAMIBIA; PROCEDURES; SEASON; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; TRANSMISSION;

BAYES THEOREM; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NAMIBIA; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; SEASONS; SPACE-TIME CLUSTERING;

EID: 84978416118     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep29628     Document Type: Article

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