Climate warming and tick-borne encephalitis, Slovakia

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 524-526

  Lukan, Martin ^a,b   Bullova, Eva ^b   Petko, Branislav ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILINA   (Slovakia)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

^c CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY IN RU OMBEROK   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HUMAN; SLOVAKIA; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS; TREND STUDY;

ALTITUDE; ANIMALS; ARACHNID VECTORS; CLIMATE; ENCEPHALITIS, TICK-BORNE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; IXODES; SLOVAKIA;

EID: 77649136220     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1603.081364     Document Type: Article

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