microepidemiology
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From micro- + epidemiology.
Noun
[edit]microepidemiology (uncountable)
- Epidemiology studied over very short distances.
- 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[1], :
- 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.