منابع مشابه
Prioritising Infectious Disease Mapping
BACKGROUND Increasing volumes of data and computational capacity afford unprecedented opportunities to scale up infectious disease (ID) mapping for public health uses. Whilst a large number of IDs show global spatial variation, comprehensive knowledge of these geographic patterns is poor. Here we use an objective method to prioritise mapping efforts to begin to address the large deficit in glob...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1935-2735
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0003756