The impact of climate on Japanese encephalitis

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 136, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 980-987

  Hsu, S M ^a   Yen, A M F ^a   Chen, T H H ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLIMATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIC ENCEPHALITIS; FLAVIVIRUS; FORECASTING; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PRECIPITATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SWINE; TEMPERATURE; TIME; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VACCINATION;

ANIMALS; CLIMATE; ENCEPHALITIS, JAPANESE; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PRECIPITATION; SEASONS; SWINE; TAIWAN; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 44049090449     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268807009454     Document Type: Article

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