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Space-time variation of malaria incidence in Yunnan province, China

Archie CA Clements1,2*, Adrian G Barnett3, Zhang W Cheng4, Robert W Snow5,6 and Hom N Zhou4

Author Affiliations

1 University of Queensland, School of Population Health, Herston, Queensland, Australia

2 Australian Centre for International and Tropical Health, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Herston, Queensland, Australia

3 Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology, Kelvin Grove, Queensland, Australia

4 Yunnan Institute of Parasitic Diseases, Pu'er, Yunnan, PR China

5 Malaria Public Health and Epidemiology Group, Centre for Geographic Medicine, KEMRI – University of Oxford – Wellcome Trust Collaborative Programme, Nairobi, Kenya

6 Centre for Tropical Medicine, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford, CCVTM, Oxford, UK

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Malaria Journal 2009, 8:180 doi:10.1186/1475-2875-8-180

Published: 31 July 2009

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Additional file 1:

Additional statistical analysis materials. The file contains tables showing the cross-correlations between raw malaria incidence in each month and the preceding months and the modelled values of log relative risk for each of the January–February and June–September periods from 1991–2006. The file also contains figures showing the median long-term average monthly rainfall and temperature by Yunnan county.

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Additional file 2:

Bayesian spatial model. The file contains statistical notation of the Bayesian spatial models used in the manuscript.

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