Towards an atlas of human helminth infection in sub-Saharan Africa: The use of geographical information systems (GIS)
Towards an atlas of human helminth infection in sub-Saharan Africa: The use of geographical information systems (GIS)
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10.1016/s0169-4758(00)01687-2
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2000-07-01
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Bundy, DAP
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Brooker, S;Rowlands, M;Bundy, DAP
地理学视角对传染病流行病学和控制的价值早已得到认可。然而，绘制地图和不断更新地图所需的劳动力阻碍了这一地区的发展，目前对疟疾、锥虫病和盘尾丝虫病以外的寄生虫感染的空间分布情况知之甚少。一个国际合作者小组最近的一项倡议正试图解决缺乏关于人类主要蠕虫感染的详细空间信息的问题。在这篇文章中，Simon Brooker及其同事描述了这一倡议在撒哈拉以南非洲蠕虫感染绘图方面取得的进展，强调了这种经验性绘图方法的价值和局限性。
The value of a geographical perspective to infectious disease epidemiology and control has long been recognized. However, the labour required to produce maps, and keep them up to date, has inhibited the development of this area, and very little is currently known about the spatial distribution of parasitic infections other than malaria, trypanosomiasis and onchocerciasis. A recent initiative by an international group of collaborators is attempting to redress the absence of detailed spatial information on the major helminth infections of humans. In this article, Simon Brooker and colleagues describe progress made by this initiative in mapping helminth infections in sub-Saharan Africa, highlighting the value as well as the limitations of this empirical mapping approach.