Hantavirus disease (nephropathia epidemica) in Belgium: Effects of tree seed production and climate

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 137, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 250-256

  Tersago, Katrien ^a   Verhagen, R ^a   Servais, A ^b   Heyman, P ^c   Ducoffre, G ^d   Leirs, H ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b Comptoir Wallon des Matériels Forestiers de Reproduction ^*  (Belgium)

^c QUEEN ASTRID MILITARY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^d SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Belgium)

^e AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Climate; Ecology; Epidemiology; Hantavirus infection; Myodes glareolus; Puumala virus; Seed production

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BELGIUM; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; PREDICTION; PUUMALA VIRUS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEED PRODUCTION; VIRUS INFECTION; CLIMATE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PLANT SEED; SEASON; TEMPERATURE; TREE; VIRUS HEMORRHAGIC FEVER;

BELGIUM; CLIMATE; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER WITH RENAL SYNDROME; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; SEASONS; SEEDS; TEMPERATURE; TREES;

EID: 61549104160     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268808000940     Document Type: Article

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