Impact of the El Niño/Southern oscillation on visceral leishmaniasis, Brazil

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 914-917

  Franke, Carlos Roberto ^a   Ziller, Mario ^b   Staubach, Christoph ^b   Latif, Mojib ^c  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF BAHIA   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CLIMATE CHANGE; EL NINO; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION RISK; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS;

EID: 0036713149     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid0809.010523     Document Type: Article

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