New challenges, new tools: The impact of climate change on infectious diseases

Current Opinion in Microbiology

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 445-451

  Patz, Jonathan A ^a   Lindsay, Steven W ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLERA; DIARRHEA; ECOSYSTEM; EPIDEMIC MENINGITIS; GLOBAL CLIMATE; INFECTION; MALARIA; NONHUMAN; NOTE; TICK BORNE DISEASE;

EID: 0033178462     PISSN: 13695274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1369-5274(99)80078-2     Document Type: Review

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