Climate prediction of El Niño malaria epidemics in north-west Tanzania

Malaria Journal

Volumn 6, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Jones, Anne E ^a   Wort, Ulrika Uddenfeldt ^b   Morse, Andrew P ^a   Hastings, Ian M ^c   Gagnon, Alexandre S ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE HIGHLANDS AND ISLANDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EL NINO; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALARIA; SEASONAL VARIATION; TANZANIA; CLIMATE; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FORECASTING; METHODOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

CLIMATE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENDEMIC DISEASES; FORECASTING; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALARIA; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TANZANIA;

EID: 38949194161     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-6-162     Document Type: Article

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