Vol. 8 No. 2 (2014)

Original Articles

• Impact of climate change and man-made irrigation systems on the transmission risk, long-term trend and seasonality of human and animal fascioliasis in Pakistan

  Kiran Afshan, Cesar A. Fortes-Lima, Patricio Artigas, M. Adela Valero, Mazhar Qayyum, Santiago Mas-Coma

  317-334

  https://doi.org/10.4081/gh.2014.22

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• Modelling spatial distribution of snails transmitting parasitic worms with importance to human and animal health and analysis of distributional changes in relation to climate

  Ulrik B. Pedersen, Nicholas Midzi, Takafira Mduluza, White Soko, Anna-Sofie Stensgaard, Birgitte J. Vennervald, Samson Mukaratirwa, Thomas K. Kristensen

  335-343

  https://doi.org/10.4081/gh.2014.23

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• Study of the snail intermediate hosts for Schistosoma mansoni on Itamaracá Island in northeast Brazil: spatial displacement of Biomphalaria glabrata by Biomphalaria straminea

  Constança S. Barbosa, Verônica S. Barbosa, Wheverton C. Nascimento, Otavio S. Pieri, Karina C. G. M. Araújo

  345-351

  https://doi.org/10.4081/gh.2014.24

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• Study of the variation of schistosomiasis risk in Lake Poyang in the People's Republic of China using multiple space-borne sensors for monitoring and modelling

  Kuo-Hsin Tseng, Song Liang, Motomu Ibaraki, Hyongki Lee, C. K. Shum

  353-364

  https://doi.org/10.4081/gh.2014.25

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• Mapping and modelling the geographical distribution of soil-transmitted helminthiases in Peninsular Malaysia: implications for control approaches

  Romano Ngui, Aziz Shafie, Kek H. Chua, Mohd S. Mistam, Hesham M. Al-Mekhlafi, Wan W. W. Sulaiman, Rohela Mahmud, Yvonne A. L. Lim

  365-376

  https://doi.org/10.4081/gh.2014.26

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• Risk map for cutaneous leishmaniasis in Ethiopia based on environmental factors as revealed by geographical information systems and statistics

  Ahmed Seid, Endalamaw Gadisa, Teshome Tsegaw, Adugna Abera, Aklilu Teshome, Abate Mulugeta, Merce Herrero, Daniel Argaw, Alvar Jorge, Asnakew Kebede, Abraham Aseffa

  377-387

  https://doi.org/10.4081/gh.2014.27

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• Importance of individual analysis of environmental and climatic factors affecting the density of Leishmania vectors living in the same geographical area: the example of Phlebotomus ariasi and P. perniciosus in northeast Spain

  Cristina Ballart, Irene Guerrero, Xavier Castells, Sergio Baròn, Soledad Castillejo, M. Magdalena Alcover, Montserrat Portús, Montserrat Gállego

  389-403

  https://doi.org/10.4081/gh.2014.28

  2384

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• Climate change and the potential global distribution of Aedes aegypti: spatial modelling using geographical information system and CLIMEX

  Hassan M. Khormi, Lalit Kumar

  405-415

  https://doi.org/10.4081/gh.2014.29

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• Geospatial analysis of invasion of the Asian tiger mosquito Aedes albopictus: competition with Aedes japonicus japonicus in its northern limit area in Japan

  Naoko Nihei, Osamu Komagata, Kan-ichiro Mochizuki, Mutsuo Kobayashi

  417-427

  https://doi.org/10.4081/gh.2014.30

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• Spatial distribution and risk factors of influenza in Jiangsu province, China, based on geographical information system

  Jia-Cheng Zhang, Wen-Dong Liu, Qi Liang, Jian-Li Hu, Jessie Norris, Ying Wu, Chang-Jun Bao, Fen-Yang Tang, Peng Huang, Yang Zhao, Rong-Bin Yu, Ming-Hao Zhou, Hong-Bing Shen, Feng Chen, Zhi-Hang Peng

  429-435

  https://doi.org/10.4081/gh.2014.31

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• The acquired immunodeficiency syndrome in the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: a spatio-temporal analysis of cases reported in the period 2001-2010

  André T. J. Alves, Flávio F. Nobre

  437-443

  https://doi.org/10.4081/gh.2014.32

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• Landscape attributes driving avian influenza virus circulation in the Lake Alaotra region of Madagascar

  Laure Guerrini, Mathilde C. Paul, Lucas Leger, Harentsoaniaina R. Andriamanivo, Olivier F. Maminiaina, Marion Jourdan, Sophie Molia, René Rakotondravao, Véronique Chevalier

  445-453

  https://doi.org/10.4081/gh.2014.33

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• Retrospective space-time cluster analysis of whooping cough re-emergence in Barcelona, Spain, 2000-2011

  Rubén Solano, Diana Gòmez-Barroso, Fernando Simòn, Sarah Lafuente, Pere Simòn, Cristina Rius, Pilar Gorrindo, Diana Toledo, Joan A. Caylá

  455-461

  https://doi.org/10.4081/gh.2014.34

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• Spatial characterization of Leptospira spp. infection in equids from the Brejo Paraibano micro-region in Brazil

  Ruy Brayner Oliveira Filho, Karla Campos Malta, Vania Lucia Assis Santana, Mabel Hanna Vance Harrop, Danilo Tancler Stipp, Daniel Friguglietti Brandespim, Rinaldo Aparecido Mota, José Júnior Wilton Pinheiro

  463-469

  https://doi.org/10.4081/gh.2014.35

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• Relative contributions of neighbourhood and animal movements to Coxiella burnetii infection in dairy cattle herds

  Simon Nusinovici, Thierry Hoch, Stefan Widgren, Alain Joly, Ann Lindberg, François Beaudeau

  471-477

  https://doi.org/10.4081/gh.2014.36

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• Spatial epidemiology of Toxoplasma gondii infection in goats in Serbia

  Vitomir Djokić, Ivana Klun, Vincenzo Musella, Laura Rinaldi, Giuseppe Cringoli, Smaragda Sotiraki, Olgica Djurković-Djaković

  479-488

  https://doi.org/10.4081/gh.2014.37

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• Evaluation of the spatial patterns and risk factors, including backyard pigs, for classical swine fever occurrence in Bulgaria using a Bayesian model

  Beatriz Martínez-Lòpez, Tsviatko Alexandrov, Lina Mur, Fernando Sánchez-Vizcaíno, José M. Sánchez-Vizcaíno

  489-501

  https://doi.org/10.4081/gh.2014.38

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• Temporal and spatial mapping of hand, foot and mouth disease in Sarawak, Malaysia

  Noraishah M. Sham, Isthrinayagy Krishnarajah, Noor Akma Ibrahim, Munn-Sann Lye

  503-507

  https://doi.org/10.4081/gh.2014.39

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• Retrospective and spatial analysis tools for integrated surveillance of cystic echinococcosis and bovine cysticercosis in hypo-endemic areas

  Rudi Cassini, Paolo Mulatti, Claudia Zanardello, Giulia Simonato, Manuela Signorini, Stefania Cazzin, Pier Giorgio Tambalo, Mario Cobianchi, Mario Pietrobelli, Gioia Capelli

  509-515

  https://doi.org/10.4081/gh.2014.40

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• Cluster detection of diseases in heterogeneous populations: an alternative to scan methods

  Rebeca Ramis, Diana Gomez-Barroso, Gonzalo Lòpez-Abente

  517-526

  https://doi.org/10.4081/gh.2014.41

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• Methodological approach to determine of small spatial units in a highly complex terrain in atmospheric pollution research: the case of Zasavje region in Slovenia

  Andreja Kukec, Marija Z. Boznar, Primoz Mlakar, Bostjan Grasic, Andrej Herakovic, Vesna Zadnik, Lijana Zaletel-Kragelj, Jerneja Farkas, Ivan Erzen

  527-535

  https://doi.org/10.4081/gh.2014.42

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• Hospital distribution in a metropolitan city: assessment by a geographical information system grid modelling approach

  Kwang-Soo Lee, Kyeong-Jun Moon

  537-544

  https://doi.org/10.4081/gh.2014.43

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• Spatial access to in-patient health care in northern rural India

  Vikram Ranga, Pradeep Panda

  545-556

  https://doi.org/10.4081/gh.2014.44

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• When homogeneity meets heterogeneity: the geographically weighted regression with spatial lag approach to prenatal care utilisation

  Carla Shoff, Vivian Yi-Ju Chen, Tse-Chuan Yang

  557-568

  https://doi.org/10.4081/gh.2014.45

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• The physical environment and health-enhancing activity during the school commute: global positioning system, geographical information systems and accelerometry

  David McMinn, Nicolas M. Oreskovic, Matt J. Aitkenhead, Derek W. Johnston, Shemane Murtagh, David A. Rowe

  569-572

  https://doi.org/10.4081/gh.2014.46

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• Optimizing denominator data estimation through a multimodel approach

  Ward Bryssinckx, Els Ducheyne, Veerle Versteirt, Herwig Leirs, Guy Hendrickx

  573-582

  https://doi.org/10.4081/gh.2014.47

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• A conceptual holding model for veterinary applications

  Nicola Ferrè, Werner Kuhn, Massimo Rumor, Stefano Marangon

  583-596

  https://doi.org/10.4081/gh.2014.48

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