Relationships between climate and year-to-year variability in meningitis outbreaks: A case study in Burkina Faso and Niger

International Journal of Health Geographics

Volumn 7, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Yaka, Pascal ^a   Sultan, Benjamin ^b   Broutin, Hélène ^c,d   Janicot, Serge ^b   Philippon, Solenne ^a   Fourquet, Nicole ^a  

^a PRODIG   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE; DISEASE INCIDENCE; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY; MENINGITIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

AFRICA; BURKINA FASO; NIGER [WEST AFRICA]; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; BURKINA FASO; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIC MENINGITIS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; METEOROLOGICAL PHENOMENA; NIGER; SEASON; THEORETICAL MODEL;

AFRICA, WESTERN; BURKINA FASO; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MENINGITIS, MENINGOCOCCAL; METEOROLOGICAL FACTORS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NIGER; SEASONS;

EID: 49549102255     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1476072X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-072X-7-34     Document Type: Article

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