Effect of climatic variability on malaria trends in Baringo County, Kenya

Malaria Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Kipruto, Edwin K ^a,b   Ochieng, Alfred O ^b   Anyona, Douglas N ^b   Mbalanya, Macrae ^b   Mutua, Edna N ^c   Onguru, Daniel ^b   Nyamongo, Isaac K ^c   Estambale, Benson B A ^b  

^a HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b JARAMOGI OGINGA ODINGA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Kenya)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Baringo County; Kenya; Malaria transmission; Rainfall; Seasonal trends; Temperature

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; KENYA; MALARIA; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; SEASONAL VARIATION; TREND STUDY; VEGETATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; PARASITOLOGY; SEASON; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRANSMISSION;

CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; HUMANS; KENYA; MALARIA; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PREVALENCE; SEASONS;

EID: 85019931823     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12936-017-1848-2     Document Type: Article

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