Table 1

Frequency of malaria transmission indices in two bibliographic archives.

Index
PubMed hits
ISI Web of Science

Entomological inoculation rate
97
84
Vectorial capacity
120
97
Basic reproductive number
10
7
Parasite rate
889
616

The search terms used were 'malaria' and each index as it appears in the table. Searches were run on February 2007.

Guerra et al. Malaria Journal 2007 6:17   doi:10.1186/1475-2875-6-17