The importance of human population characteristics in modeling Aedes aegypti distributions and assessing risk of mosquito-borne infectious diseases

Tropical Medicine and Health

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Obenauer, Julie F ^a   Andrew Joyner, T ^a   Harris, Joseph B ^a,b  

^a EAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aedes aegypti; Climate change; Human population; Maxent; Mosquito distributions; Species distribution model; Zika virus

Indexed keywords

AEDES AEGYPTI; ARTICLE; CLIMATE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOSQUITO VECTOR; POPULATION DENSITY; POVERTY; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 85034616858     PISSN: 13488945     EISSN: 13494147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s41182-017-0078-1     Document Type: Article

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