Article
Spatial Effects on the Multiplicity of Plasmodium falciparum Infections.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2016
Karl Stephan, White Michael T, Milne George J, Gurarie David, Hay Simon I, Barry Alyssa E, Felger Ingrid, Mueller Ivo
Abstract excerpt
As malaria is being pushed back on many frontiers and global case numbers are declining, accurate measurement and prediction of transmission becomes increasingly difficult. Low transmission settings are characterised by high levels of spatial heterogeneity, which stands in stark contrast to the widely used assumption of spatially homogeneous transmission used in mathematical transmission models for malaria. In...
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