Climate and acute/subacute paracoccidioidomycosis in a hyper-endemic area in Brazil

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1642-1649

  Barrozo, Ligia V ^a   Mendes, Rinaldo P ^b   Marques, Silvio A ^b   Benard, Gil ^a   Siqueira Silva, Maria E ^a   Bagagli, Eduardo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Climate; Environment; Paracoccidioidomycosis

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE EFFECT; DISEASE INCIDENCE; FUNGAL DISEASE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RELATIVE HUMIDITY;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CLIMATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FUNGUS GROWTH; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOIL WATER CONTENT; SOUTH AMERICAN BLASTOMYCOSIS; SPOROGENESIS; WEATHER; ACUTE DISEASE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOLOGY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PARACOCCIDIOIDES; PATHOGENICITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; TEMPERATURE;

BOTUCATU; BRAZIL; SAO PAULO [BRAZIL];

PARACOCCIDIOIDES BRASILIENSIS;

ACUTE DISEASE; BRAZIL; CLIMATE; ECOLOGY; ENDEMIC DISEASES; HUMANS; HUMIDITY; INCIDENCE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PARACOCCIDIOIDES; PARACOCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 75349086303     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: 14643685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyp207     Document Type: Article

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