Climatic predictors of the intra- and inter-annual distributions of plague cases in New Mexico based on 29 years of animal-based surveillance data

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 95-102

  Brown, Heidi E ^a   Ettestad, Paul ^b   Reynolds, Pamela J ^c   Brown, Ted L ^b   Hatton, Elizabeth S ^b   Holmes, Jennifer L ^a   Glass, Gregory E ^d   Gage, Kenneth L ^a   Eisen, Rebecca J ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b NEW MEXICO DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c NEW MEXICO DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLIMATE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; METEOROLOGICAL PHENOMENA; NONHUMAN; PLAGUE; PREDICTION; SEASON; TEMPERATURE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES; VARIANCE; WINTER;

ANIMALS; CATS; CLIMATE; DOGS; HUMANS; NEW MEXICO; PLAGUE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; SEASONS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 74049091685     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2010.09-0247     Document Type: Article

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