Vol. 3 No. 2 (2009)

Original Articles

• Virtual globes and geospatial health: the potential of new tools in the management and control of vector-borne diseases

  Anna-Sofie Stensgaard, Christopher F.L. Saarnak, Jürg Utzinger, Penelope Vounatsou, Christopher Simoonga, Gabriel Mushinge, Carsten Rahbek, Flemming Møhlenberg, Thomas K. Kristensen

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  https://doi.org/10.4081/gh.2009.216

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• Diluting the dilution effect: a spatial Lyme model provides evidence for the importance of habitat fragmentation with regard to the risk of infection

  Agustín Estrada-Peña

  143-155

  https://doi.org/10.4081/gh.2009.217

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• Developing operational algorithms using linear and non-linear squares estimation in Python® for the identification of Culex pipiens and Culex restuans in a mosquito abatement district (Cook County, Illinois, USA)

  Benjamin G. Jacob, Weidong Gu, Erik X. Caamano, Robert J. Novak

  157-176

  https://doi.org/10.4081/gh.2009.218

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• Present habitat suitability for Anopheles atroparvus (Diptera, Culicidae) and its coincidence with former malaria areas in mainland Portugal

  César Capinha, Eduardo Gomes, Eusébio Reis, Jorge Rocha, Carla A. Sousa, V. E. do Rosário, A. Paulo Almeida

  177-187

  https://doi.org/10.4081/gh.2009.219

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• Urban agriculture and Anopheles habitats in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

  Stefan Dongus, Dickson Nyika, Khadija Kannady, Deo Mtasiwa, Hassan Mshinda, Laura Gosoniu, Axel W. Drescher, Ulrike Fillinger, Marcel Tanner, Gerry F. Killeen, Marcia C. Castro

  189-210

  https://doi.org/10.4081/gh.2009.220

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• Rift Valley fever in a zone potentially occupied by Aedes vexans in Senegal: dynamics and risk mapping

  Cécile Vignolles, Jean-Pierre Lacaux, Yves M. Tourre, Guillaume Bigeard, Jacques-André Ndione, Murielle Lafaye

  211-220

  https://doi.org/10.4081/gh.2009.221

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• Landscape genetics: the correlation of spatial and genetic distances of Oncomelania hupensis, the intermediate host snail of Schistosoma japonicum in mainland China

  Shi-Zhu Li, Yi-Xiu Wang, Kun Yang, Qin Liu, Qiang Wang, Yi Zhang, Xiao-Hua Wu, Jia-Gang Guo, Robert Bergquist, Xiao-Nong Zhou

  221-231

  https://doi.org/10.4081/gh.2009.222

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• Helmintic infections in water buffaloes on Italian farms: a spatial analysis

  Laura Rinaldi, Vincenzo Musella, Vincenzo Veneziano, Renato U. Condoleo, Giuseppe Cringoli

  233-239

  https://doi.org/10.4081/gh.2009.223

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• Neighbourhood alcohol availability and gonorrhea rates: impact of social capital

  Katherine P. Theall, Richard Scribner, Bonnie Ghosh-Dastidar, Deborah Cohen, Karen Mason, Neal Simonsen

  241-255

  https://doi.org/10.4081/gh.2009.224

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• Long-term exposure to gaseous air pollutants and cardio-respiratory mortality in Brisbane, Australia

  Xiao Yu Wang, Wenbiao Hu, Shilu Tong

  257-263

  https://doi.org/10.4081/gh.2009.225

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