Association between climate variability and malaria epidemics in the East Africian highlands

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 101, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 2375-2380

  Zhou, Guofa ^a   Minakawa, Noboru ^a   Githeko, Andrew K ^b   Yan, Guiyun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b KENYA MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Climate change; Plasmodium falciparum; Statistical modeling; Time series analysis

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ARTICLE; AUTOREGRESSION; CLIMATE CHANGE; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHIC ELEVATION; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; NONHUMAN; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; OUTPATIENT; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPATIAL AUTOCORRELATION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

AFRICA, EASTERN; CLIMATE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ETHIOPIA; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; KENYA; MALARIA; SEASONS; TEMPERATURE; UGANDA;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOA;

EID: 1442354948     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0308714100     Document Type: Article

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