Modelling the spatial and seasonal distribution of suitable habitats of schistosomiasis intermediate host snails using Maxent in Ndumo area, KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa

BACKGROUND: Schistosomiasis is a snail-borne disease endemic in sub-Saharan Africa transmitted by freshwater snails. The distribution of schistosomiasis coincides with that of the intermediate hosts as determined by climatic and environmental factors. The aim of this paper was to model the spatial a...

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Autores principales: Manyangadze, Tawanda, Chimbari, Moses John, Gebreslasie, Michael, Ceccato, Pietro, Mukaratirwa, Samson
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5096326/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27814746
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13071-016-1834-5

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