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Identifying Malaria Transmission Foci for Elimination Using Human Mobility Data

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Ruktanonchai, Nick W., DeLeenheer, Patrick, Tatem, Andrew J., Alegana, Victor A., Caughlin, T. Trevor, zu Erbach-Schoenberg, Elisabeth, Lourenço, Christopher, Ruktanonchai, Corrine W., and Smith, David L.

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Humans move frequently and tend to carry parasites among areas with endemic malaria and into areas where local transmission is unsustainable. Human-mediated parasite mobility can thus sustain parasite populations in areas where they would otherwise be absent. Data describing human mobility and malaria epidemiology can help classify landscapes into parasite...

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. Ruktanonchai1,2, David L. Smith6,7,8,9 1 WorldPop Project, Geography and Environment, University of Southampton