Assessment of climate-coccidioidomycosis model: Model sensitivity for assessing climatologic effects on the risk of acquiring coccidioidomycosis

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1111, Issue , 2007, Pages 83-95

  Comrie, Andrew C ^a   Glueck, Mary F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Arizona; Climate and health; Coccidioidomycosis; Incidence; Model sensitivity; Prediction; Southwestern United States; Valley Fever

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; EXPOSURE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; METHODOLOGY; NONHUMAN; QUALITY CONTROL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEASONAL VARIATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 35348898367     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1406.024     Document Type: Conference Paper

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