Effects of global climate on infectious disease: The cholera model

Clinical Microbiology Reviews

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 757-770

  Lipp, Erin K ^a,b   Huq, Anwar ^a,c   Colwell, Rita R ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BIOTECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c Bldg 142   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE INFECTION; CHOLERA; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENDEMIC DISEASE; GLOBAL CLIMATE; HUMAN; INFECTION; PHYTOPLANKTON; REVIEW; ZOOPLANKTON; ANIMAL; CLIMATE; ECOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; SEASON;

AIR MICROBIOLOGY; ANIMALS; CHOLERA; CLIMATE; DISEASE VECTORS; ECOLOGY; HUMANS; PHYTOPLANKTON; SEASONS; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; ZOOPLANKTON;

EID: 0036780202     PISSN: 08938512     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CMR.15.4.757-770.2002     Document Type: Review

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