Climate variations and Salmonella infection in Australian subtropical and tropical regions

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 408, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 524-530

  Zhang, Ying ^a   Bi, Peng ^a   Hiller, Janet E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Salmonella; Temperature; Threshold; Time series

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; AUTOREGRESSION; BRISBANE; CLIMATE VARIATION; CUBIC SPLINE; LAG EFFECTS; LOCAL AUTHORITIES; LONG-TERM TREND; METEOROLOGICAL VARIABLES; POISSON REGRESSION; QUEENSLAND; REGRESSION MODEL; RELATIVE HUMIDITIES; SALMONELLA INFECTIONS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPEARMAN CORRELATION; STICK MODEL; SUBTROPICAL AREA; TEMPERATURE THRESHOLDS; THRESHOLD TEMPERATURES; TOWNSVILLE; TROPICAL REGIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TROPICAL ENGINEERING;

TROPICS;

RAIN;

BACTERIUM; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE VARIATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SUBTROPICAL REGION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TIME SERIES; TROPICAL REGION;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CLIMATE CHANGE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METEOROLOGICAL PHENOMENA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALMONELLOSIS; SEASONAL VARIATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; TEMPERATURE; WEATHER;

AUSTRALIA; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RAIN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SALMONELLA INFECTIONS; SEASONS; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; BRISBANE; QUEENSLAND; TOWNSVILLE;

SALMONELLA;

EID: 70549113545     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2009.10.068     Document Type: Article

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