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SUBMITTER: Alegana VA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3839406 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Alegana Victor A VA Atkinson Peter M PM Wright Jim A JA Kamwi Richard R Uusiku Petrina P Katokele Stark S Snow Robert W RW Noor Abdisalan M AM
Spatial and spatio-temporal epidemiology 20130917
As malaria transmission declines, it becomes increasingly important to monitor changes in malaria incidence rather than prevalence. Here, a spatio-temporal model was used to identify constituencies with high malaria incidence to guide malaria control. Malaria cases were assembled across all age groups along with several environmental covariates. A Bayesian conditional-autoregressive model was used to model the spatial and temporal variation of incidence after adjusting for test positivity rates ...[more]