Climate change: Regional warming and malaria resurgence

Nature

Volumn 420, Issue 6916, 2002, Pages 627-628

  Patz, Jonathan A ^a   Hulmet, Mike ^b   Rosenzweig, Cynthia ^c   Mitchell, Timothy D ^b   Goldberg, Richard A ^c   Githeko, Andrew K ^d   Lele, Subhash ^e   McMichael, Anthony J ^f   Le Sueur, David ^g  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^c Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^d Medical Research Institute   (Kenya)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^f AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^g SOUTH AFRICAN MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DISEASE SPREAD; MALARIA; WARMING;

AFRICA; ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; CLIMATE; EPIDEMIC; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HUMAN; MALARIA; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE; INCIDENCE; NOTE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY;

AFRICA; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALARIA; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0037789250     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/420627a     Document Type: Article

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