Modelling the spatial and seasonal distribution of suitable habitats of schistosomiasis intermediate host snails using Maxent in Ndumo area, KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 1-10

  Manyangadze, Tawanda ^a   Chimbari, Moses John ^a   Gebreslasie, Michael ^a   Ceccato, Pietro ^b   Mukaratirwa, Samson ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^b Earth Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Maxent; Predictive modelling; Schistosomiasis; Snail borne disease modelling

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOMPHALARIA PFEIFFERI; BULINUS GLOBOSUS; COHABITATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PH; PRECIPITATION; PREDICTION; RURAL AREA; SAMPLING; SCHISTOSOMA HAEMATOBIUM; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SNAIL; SOUTH AFRICA; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES HABITAT; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; VALIDATION STUDY; VEGETATION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISPERSAL; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; BIOMPHALARIA; BULINUS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISEASE CARRIER; ECOSYSTEM; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMAL DISTRIBUTION; ANIMALS; AREA UNDER CURVE; BIOMPHALARIA; BULINUS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISEASE VECTORS; ECOSYSTEM; SCHISTOSOMA HAEMATOBIUM; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 84995684283     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13071-016-1834-5     Document Type: Article

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