Incidence of visceral leishmaniasis in the Vaishali district of Bihar, India: spatial patterns and role of inland water bodies

Incidence of visceral leishmaniasis in the Vaishali district of Bihar, India: spatial patterns and role of inland water bodies

The role of the distribution of inland water bodies with respect to the transmission of visceral leishmaniasis (VL) and its dominant vector, <em>Phlebotomous argentipes</em>, has been studied at the regional scale in Bihar, eastern India. The Landsat TM sensor multispectral scanning radi...

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Main Authors: Gouri Sankar Bhunia, Shreekant Kesari, Nandini Chatterjee, Dilip Kumar Pal, Vijay Kumar, Alok Ranjan, Pradeep Das
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PAGEPress Publications 2011-05-01
Series:Geospatial Health
Subjects:
visceral leishmaniasis, inland water body, normalized differential pond index, India.
Online Access:http://www.geospatialhealth.net/index.php/gh/article/view/173

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