Hysteresis in simulations of malaria transmission

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 108, Issue , 2017, Pages 416-422

  Yamana, Teresa K ^a   Qiu, Xin ^b   Eltahir, Elfatih A B ^b  

^a Department of Medicine   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental drivers; Hysteresis; Immunity; Initial conditions; Malaria

Indexed keywords

HYSTERESIS; POPULATION STATISTICS;

ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL DETERMINANTS; ENVIRONMENTAL VARIABLES; IMMUNITY; INITIAL CONDITIONS; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; MALARIA; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS;

DISEASES;

CLIMATE CONDITIONS; DISEASE PREVALENCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FORECASTING METHOD; IMMUNITY; MALARIA; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

EID: 85008642337     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2016.10.003     Document Type: Article

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