microepidemiology

noun

Epidemiology studied over very short distances.

Scrabble 30

Meanings

nounmicroepidemiology (uncountable)
  1. uncountableEpidemiology studied over very short distances.
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    At present, the factors underlying the microepidemiology of malaria are not fully understood, but include variation in distance to the nearest mosquito breeding site, water body or vegetation, household structural features [21, 22 ], and both human behavioural and genetic factors [22 ], that may also result in differential attractiveness to mosquitoes.

    2015 September 19, “Spatio-Temporal Variations in Malaria Incidence in Children Less than 10 Years Old, Health District of Sokone, Senegal, 2010–2013”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

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