Modeling the biocoenose of parasitic diseases using remote sensing and geographic information systems

Malone, J.B.; McNally, K.L.; McCarroll, J.C.; Corbett, J.D.; Mkoji, G.

Parassitologia 46(1-2): 59-61

2004


ISSN/ISBN: 0048-2951
PMID: 15305687
Document Number: 571221
Application of growing degree day-water budget analysis concepts to 2 snail-borne diseases (schistosomiasis and fascioliasis) in East Africa are reviewed to demonstrate use of the unique thermal-hydrological preferences and limits of tolerance of individual parasite-vector systems to define the environmental niche of disease agents in the landscape by modern geospatial analysis tools.

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