Infectious diseases, climate influences, and nonstationarity

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1212-1213

  Cazelles, Bernard ^a,b   Hales, Simon ^c  

^a ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EL NINO; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EPIDEMIC; GLOBAL CLIMATE; HUMAN; INFECTION; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; SHORT SURVEY; ANIMAL; CLIMATE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; METHODOLOGY; PUBLIC HEALTH; REVIEW; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS; STANDARD; TIME;

ANIMALS; CLIMATE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; HUMANS; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; PUBLIC HEALTH; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33748365026     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030328     Document Type: Short Survey

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