Climate change effects on plague and tularemia in the United States

Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 529-540

  Nakazawa, Yoshinori ^a   Williams, Richard ^a   Peterson, A Townsend ^a   Mead, Paul ^b   Staples, Erin ^b   Gage, Kenneth L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Disease transmission; Plague; Spatial patterns; Tularemia

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; FORECASTING; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; GLOBAL CHANGE; HUMAN; PLAGUE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TULAREMIA; UNITED STATES; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; CLIMATE; FORECASTING; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PLAGUE; RAIN; RISK FACTORS; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS; TULAREMIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 37549061727     PISSN: 15303667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/vbz.2007.0125     Document Type: Article

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