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Simulating Plasmodium Epidemiological and Genetic Data
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Update Hay et al. EIR vs prev data #80

Open bobverity opened 1 year ago

bobverity commented 1 year ago

The study currently cited uses data that actuall come from an earlier paper here:

"Annual Plasmodium falciparum entomological inoculation rates (EIR) across Africa: literature survey, internet access and review"

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3204456/

The earlier paper is probably a better source, and contains other information like geographic distribution that would be nice to include.

bobverity commented 1 year ago

Actually scratch that - the new data contains the old plus a load more. And all data is georeferenced in the Hay 2005 paper. So update would simply be extracting further data, e.g. geographic coordinates.

bobverity commented 1 year ago

Also look into each referenced study to work out which form of prevalence is being used? i.e. age range, micrscopy etc.