Malaria Hotspots: Is There Epidemiological Evidence for Fine-Scale Spatial Targeting of Interventions?

Gillian Stresman1, Teun Bousema2, Jackie Cook3

  • 1Infection Biology Department, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.

Trends in Parasitology
|September 3, 2019
PubMed

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