Adaptive geostatistical sampling enables efficient identification of malaria hotspots in repeated cross-sectional surveys in rural Malawi.

INTRODUCTION:In the context of malaria elimination, interventions will need to target high burden areas to further reduce transmission. Current tools to monitor and report disease burden lack the capacity to continuously detect fine-scale spatial and temporal variations of disease distribution exhib...

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Hauptverfasser: Alinune N Kabaghe, Michael G Chipeta, Robert S McCann, Kamija S Phiri, Michèle van Vugt, Willem Takken, Peter Diggle, Anja D Terlouw
Format: Artikel
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Schriftenreihe:PLoS ONE
Online Zugang:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5308819?pdf=render