Identifying Malaria Transmission Foci for Elimination Using Human Mobility Data.

Humans move frequently and tend to carry parasites among areas with endemic malaria and into areas where local transmission is unsustainable. Human-mediated parasite mobility can thus sustain parasite populations in areas where they would otherwise be absent. Data describing human mobility and malar...

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Main Authors: Nick W Ruktanonchai, Patrick DeLeenheer, Andrew J Tatem, Victor A Alegana, T Trevor Caughlin, Elisabeth Zu Erbach-Schoenberg, Christopher Lourenço, Corrine W Ruktanonchai, David L Smith
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-04-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004846