Despite a relatively good national case reporting system in Sri Lanka, detailed maps of malaria distribution have not been publicly available. In this study, monthly records over the period 1995 – 2000 of microscopically confirmed malaria parasite posit
To strengthen the country's prevention and control measures, this study was carried out to develop forecasting and prediction models of malaria incidence in the endemic districts of Bhutan using time series and ARIMAX. Methods This study was carried out retrospectively using the monthly reported ...
Over the years, I have learned our process of instruction, formal education and On-The-Job-Training (OJT) is second to none. While the formal education has changed to match the times and organizational changes, the OJT process has not changed. It still relies on the seasoned veterans of ...
Trung HD, Van BW, Sochantha T, Keokenchanh K, Briët OJT, Coosemans M: Behavioural heterogeneity of Anopheles species in ecologically different localities in Southeast Asia: a challenge for vector control. Trop Med Int Health. 2005, 10: 251-262. 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2004.01378.x. Article...
(monthly) effects; seasonality through harmonics; and through random effects using seasonal mixed auto-regressive integrated moving average (SARIMA) models. Whether or not covariates such as rainfall and concurrent malaria case counts in neighbouring areas improved the predictive ability of the models ...
[28,29] used human landing catch and extracted DNA from the captured mosquitoes to estimate the EIR. Both studies collected the EIR at the village level. The study by Durnez et al.[28] reported the EIR over 1 year, while the study by Van Bortel et al.[29] reported it monthly. Both...