Mapping internal connectivity through human migration in malaria endemic countries

Scientific Data

Volumn 3, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Sorichetta, Alessandro ^a,b   Bird, Tom J ^a,b   Ruktanonchai, Nick W ^a,b   Zu Erbach Schoenberg, Elisabeth ^a,b   Pezzulo, Carla ^a,b   Tejedor, Natalia ^a,b   Waldock, Ian C ^a   Sadler, Jason D ^a   Garcia, Andres J ^c   Sedda, Luigi ^d   Tatem, Andrew J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b FLOWMINDER FOUNDATION   (Sweden)

^c BILL AND MELINDA GATES FOUNDATION   (United States)

^d LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALARIA; MIGRATION; POPULATION RESEARCH;

CENSUSES; DATA COLLECTION; HUMAN MIGRATION; HUMANS; MALARIA;

EID: 84982227997     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20524463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sdata.2016.66     Document Type: Article

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