Hitting Hotspots: Spatial Targeting of Malaria for Control and Elimination

Teun Bousema and colleagues argue that targeting malaria “hotspots” is a highly efficient way to reduce malaria transmission at all levels of transmission intensity.

• Publication year

  2012

• Venue

  PLoS Medicine

• Publication date

  2012-01-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001165PMID 22303287PMCID 3269430
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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