10 articles in this issue
Anna-Sofie Stensgaard, Christopher F.L. Saarnak, Jürg Utzinger, Penelope Vounatsou, Christopher Simoonga, Gabriel Mushinge, Carsten Rahbek, Flemming Møhlenberg, Thomas K. Kristensen
The rapidly growing field of three-dimensional software modeling of the Earth holds promise for applications in the geospatial health sciences. Easy-to-use, intuitive virtual globe technologies such as Google Earth™ enable scientists around the world to s... see more
Agustín Estrada-Peña
This paper aims to construct a spatially-explicit model of Ixodes scapularis infection in the State of New York, USA, based on climate traits, high-resolution landscape features and patch-connectivity according to graph theory. The degree of risk for infe... see more
Benjamin G. Jacob, Weidong Gu, Erik X. Caamano, Robert J. Novak
In this research, community level spatial models were developed for determining mosquito abundance and environmental factors that could aid in the risk prediction of West Nile virus (WNv) outbreaks. Adult Culex pipiens and Culex restuan mosquitoes and mul... see more
César Capinha, Eduardo Gomes, Eusébio Reis, Jorge Rocha, Carla A. Sousa, V. E. do Rosário, A. Paulo Almeida
Malaria was a major health problem in the first half of the 20th Century in mainland Portugal. Nowadays, although the disease is no longer endemic, there is still the risk of future endemic infections due to the continuous occurrence of imported cases and... see more
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
A cross-sectional survey of agricultural areas, combined with routinely monitored mosquito larval information, was conducted in urban Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, to investigate how agricultural and geographical features may influence the presence of Anophele... see more
Cécile Vignolles, Jean-Pierre Lacaux, Yves M. Tourre, Guillaume Bigeard, Jacques-André Ndione, Murielle Lafaye
This paper presents an analysis of the interaction between the various variables associated with Rift Valley fever (RVF) such as the mosquito vector, available hosts and rainfall distribution. To that end, the varying zones potentially occupied by mosquit... see more
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
Two internal transcribed spacer (ITS1 and ITS2) sequences of the non-coding region of the rDNA and a 16S RNA gene fragment of the mtDNA of Oncomelania hupensis, the intermediate host snail of Schistosoma japonicum in mainland China, have been investigated... see more
Laura Rinaldi, Vincenzo Musella, Vincenzo Veneziano, Renato U. Condoleo, Giuseppe Cringoli
The present paper reports the results of a cross-sectional survey aimed at obtaining up-to-date information on the spatial distribution of different groups and/or species of helminths in water buffaloes from central Italy. Geographical information systems... see more
Katherine P. Theall, Richard Scribner, Bonnie Ghosh-Dastidar, Deborah Cohen, Karen Mason, Neal Simonsen
Social capital and income inequality have been proposed as important mediators of the relation between the material environment and health outcomes. We determined whether indicators of social capital are (i) associated with neighbourhood gonorrhea rates, ... see more
Xiao Yu Wang, Wenbiao Hu, Shilu Tong
This study examines the association of long-term exposure to gaseous air pollution with cardio-respiratory mortality in Brisbane, Australia, in the period 1996-2004. The pollutant concentrations were estimated using geographical information system (GIS) t... see more