Wind direction and its linkage with Vibrio cholerae dissemination

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 115, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 195-200

  Paz, Shlomit ^a   Broza, Meir ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

Africa; Chironomidae; India; Vibrio cholarae; Wind

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BANGLADESH; BIOTYPE; CLIMATE; DISEASE CARRIER; EPIDEMIC; FLY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; INDIA; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; WIND;

AFRICA; ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; BANGLADESH; CHOLERA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; GEOGRAPHY; INDIA; INSECT VECTORS; PLANKTON; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; WIND;

CHIRONOMIDAE; HEXAPODA; VIBRIO; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 33847142378     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.9391     Document Type: Article

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