Hitting Hotspots: Spatial Targeting of Malaria for Control and Elimination

نویسندگان

  • Teun Bousema
  • Jamie T. Griffin
  • Robert W. Sauerwein
  • David L. Smith
  • Thomas S. Churcher
  • Willem Takken
  • Azra Ghani
  • Chris Drakeley
  • Roly Gosling
چکیده

1 Department of Immunity and Infection, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, 2 Department of Medical Microbiology, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 3 Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and HTA, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 4 Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, MRC Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modeling, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, 5 Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute and Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, 6 Laboratory of Entomology, Wageningen University and Research Centre, Wageningen, The Netherlands, 7 Global Health Group, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

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دوره 9  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2012