Appraisal of Phlebotomus argentipes habitat suitability using a remotely sensed index in the kala-azar endemic focus of Bihar, India

Visceral leishmaniasis, or kala-azar, is recognised as a serious emerging public health problem in India. In this study, environmental parameters, such as land surface temperature (LST) and renormalised difference vegetation indices (RDVI), were used to delineate the association between environmenta...

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Hlavní autoři: Shreekant Kesari, Gouri Sankar Bhunia, Nandini Chatterjee, Vijay Kumar, Rakesh Mandal, Pradeep Das
Médium: Článek
Jazyk:English
Vydáno: Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (FIOCRUZ) 2013-04-01
Edice:Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
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