The effects of city streets on an urban disease vector.

With increasing urbanization vector-borne diseases are quickly developing in cities, and urban control strategies are needed. If streets are shown to be barriers to disease vectors, city blocks could be used as a convenient and relevant spatial unit of study and control. Unfortunately, existing spat...

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Main Authors: Corentin M Barbu, Andrew Hong, Jennifer M Manne, Dylan S Small, Javier E Quintanilla Calderón, Karthik Sethuraman, Víctor Quispe-Machaca, Jenny Ancca-Juárez, Juan G Cornejo del Carpio, Fernando S Málaga Chavez, César Náquira, Michael Z Levy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3547802?pdf=render