El Nino and arboviral disease prediction

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 107, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 817-818

  Maelzer, Derek ^a   Hales, Simon ^b   Weinstein, Phil ^b   Zalucki, Myron ^a   Woodward, Alistair ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Arboviruses; Climate; Prediction; Vectorborne disease

Indexed keywords

ARBOVIRUS; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CLIMATE; EPIDEMIC; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; ROSS RIVER ALPHA VIRUS; VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN; TEMPERATURE;

ALPHAVIRUS; ARBOVIRUS; RNA VIRUSES; ROSS RIVER VIRUS;

RAIN;

ARBOVIRUS INFECTIONS; CLIMATE; HUMANS; RAIN; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0032589292     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.99107817     Document Type: Article

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