El Nino and the dynamics of vectorborne disease transmission

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 107, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 99-102

  Hales, Simon ^a   Weinstein, Phil ^a   Souares, Yvan ^b   Woodward, Alistair ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b SECRETARIAT OF THE PACIFIC COMMUNITY   (New Caledonia)

Author keywords

Climate; Dengue; Disease vectors; El Nino; Environment; Epidemiology; Southern oscillation

Indexed keywords

RAIN; VIRUS VECTOR;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DENGUE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENDEMIC DISEASE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; PACIFIC ISLANDS; POPULATION DENSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; TEMPERATURE; DISEASE CARRIER; SEASON; WEATHER;

CLIMATE; DENGUE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DISEASE VECTORS; HUMANS; PACIFIC ISLANDS; SEASONS; WEATHER;

EID: 0032590083     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.9910799     Document Type: Article

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