Time series analysis performed on nephropathia epidemica in humans of Northern Sweden in relation to bank vole population dynamic and the NAO index

Zoonoses and Public Health

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 150-156

  Thomas Palo, R ^a  

^a MID SWEDEN UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Bank vole; Climate change; Hantavirus; Human disease; Time series; Zoonoses

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HUMAN; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; PERIODICITY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUUMALA VIRUS; SWEDEN; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; VOLE; WEATHER; WINTER;

ANIMALS; ARVICOLINAE; CLIMATE; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER WITH RENAL SYNDROME; HUMANS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GROWTH; PREVALENCE; SWEDEN; TIME FACTORS; ZOONOSES;

CLETHRIONOMYS GLAREOLUS; HANTAVIRUS; MURIDAE;

EID: 61849119172     PISSN: 18631959     EISSN: 18632378     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1863-2378.2008.01162.x     Document Type: Article

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