Seasonality and heterogeneity of malaria transmission determine success of interventions in high-endemic settings: A modeling study

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2018, Pages

  Selvaraj, Prashanth ^a   Wenger, Edward A ^a   Gerardin, Jaline ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR DISEASE MODELING   (United States)

Author keywords

Heterogeneity Mathematical modeling; Malaria; Seasonality

Indexed keywords

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; INSECTICIDE;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ARTICLE; CELL DENSITY; CHILD; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; ENDEMIC DISEASE; EXPOSURE VARIABLE; GAMETOCYTE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INDOOR RESIDUAL SPRAYING; INNATE IMMUNITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEASUREMENT; NIGERIA; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VECTOR; PEST CONTROL; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH CAMPAIGN; SEASONAL VARIATION; ANIMAL; CHEMOPROPHYLAXIS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE CARRIER; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEASON; STANDARDS; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME FACTOR; TRANSMISSION;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ANIMALS; CHEMOPREVENTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DISEASE VECTORS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALARIA; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PREVALENCE; SEASONS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 85052142429     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12879-018-3319-y     Document Type: Article

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