Modelling climate change impact on the spatial distribution of fresh water snails hosting trematodes in Zimbabwe

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Pedersen, Ulrik B ^a   Stendel, Martin ^b   Midzi, Nicholas ^c,d   Mduluza, Takafira ^c,e   Soko, White ^d,e   Stensgaard, Anna Sofie ^a,f   Vennervald, Birgitte J ^a   Mukaratirwa, Samson ^e   Kristensen, Thomas K ^a,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b DANISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZIMBABWE   (Zimbabwe)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH RESEARCH   (Zimbabwe)

^e UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^f UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Climate change; Fascioliasis; Regional climate models; Schistosomiasis; Snail; Species distribution modelling

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOMPHALARIA PFEIFFERI; BULINUS GLOBOSUS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FASCIOLIASIS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; RADIX NATALENSIS; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SNAIL; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES HABITAT; TREMATODE; ZIMBABWE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISPERSAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMAL DISTRIBUTION; ANIMALS; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SNAILS; TREMATODA; ZIMBABWE; ZOONOSES;

EID: 84989220939     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13071-014-0536-0     Document Type: Article

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