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MosquitoMap and the Mal-area calculator: new web tools to relate mosquito species distribution with vector borne disease by Desmond H Foley; Richard C Wilkerson; Ian Birney; Stanley Harrison; Jamie Christensen; Leopoldo M Rueda is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.
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## Background: Mosquitoes are important vectors of diseases but, in spite of various mosquito faunistic surveys globally, there is a need for a spatial online database of mosquito collection data and distribution summaries. such a resource could provide entomologists with the results of previous mosquito surveys, and vector disease control workers, preventative medicine practitioners, and health planners with information relating mosquito distribution to vector-borne disease risk. ## Results: A web application called mosquitomap was constructed comprising mosquito collection point data stored in an arcgis 9.3 server/sql geodatabase that includes administrative area and vector species x country lookup tables. in addition to the layer containing mosquito collection points, other map layers were made available including environmental, and vector and pathogen/disease distribution layers. an application within mosquitomap called the mal-area calculator (mac) was constructed to quantify the area of overlap, for any area of interest, of vector, human, and disease distribution models. data standards for mosquito records were developed for mosquitomap. ## Conclusion: Mosquitomap is a public
Who reads MosquitoMap and the Mal-area calculator: new web tools to relate mosquito species distribution with vector borne disease?
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- Author
- Desmond H Foley; Richard C Wilkerson; Ian Birney; Stanley Harrison; Jamie Christensen; Leopoldo M Rueda
- Publisher
- BioMed Central; Springer (Biomed Central Ltd.); [London]: BioMed Central, c2002-; Springer Science and Business Media LLC (ISSN 1476-072X)
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)