Malaria early warning in Kenya

被引:58
作者
Hay, SI [1 ]
Rogers, DJ
Shanks, GD
Myers, MF
Snow, RW
机构
[1] Univ Oxford, Dept Zool, TALA Res Grp, S Parks Rd, Oxford OX1 3PS, England
[2] Armed Forces Res Inst Med Sci, USAMC, Bangkok 10400, Thailand
[3] NASA, Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA
[4] Kenya Govt Med Res Ctr, Wellcome Trust Collaborat Programme, Nairobi, Kenya
[5] Univ Oxford, John Radcliffe Hosp, Nuffield Dept Clin Med, Ctr Trop Med, Oxford OX3 9DS, England
基金
英国惠康基金;
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10.1016/S1471-4922(00)01763-3
中图分类号
R38 [医学寄生虫学]; Q [生物科学];
学科分类号
07 ; 0710 ; 09 ; 100103 ;
摘要
Kenya displays large spatiotemporal diversity in its climate and ecology. It follows that malaria transmission will reflect this environmental heterogeneity in both space and time. In this article, we discuss how such heterogeneity, and its epidemiological consequences, should be considered in the development of early warning systems for malaria epidemics.
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