A risk factor study of coccidioidomycosis by controlling differential misclassifications of exposure and susceptibility using a landscape ecology approach

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 408, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2199-2207

  Tabor, Joseph A ^a,b   O'Rourke, Mary Kay ^b  

^a Environmental Research Laboratory   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Complex survey; Design effects; Landscape epidemiology; Multiple imputation; Poststratification; Valley fever

Indexed keywords

ARIZONA; BIVARIATE; COMPLEX SURVEY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENTS; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK FACTOR; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDIES; HISPANICS; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; LOGISTIC REGRESSIONS; MISCLASSIFICATIONS; MULTIPLE IMPUTATION; ODDS RATIOS; RISK FACTORS; SOCIO-ECONOMICS; SPATIO-TEMPORAL; SURVEY DESIGN; TELEPHONE SURVEY; TEMPORAL DIFFERENCES; TUCSON , ARIZONA; TWO STAGE;

DECISION MAKING; LANDFORMS; SURVEYS;

EPIDEMIOLOGY;

EPIDEMIOLOGY; FUNGAL DISEASE; HOUSEHOLD SURVEY; NEIGHBORHOOD; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; COCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; FUNGUS SPORE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INFANT; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RISK; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; MALE; MINORITY GROUP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RESIDENTIAL AREA; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; SELF REPORT; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARIZONA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COCCIDIOIDES; COCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATA COLLECTION; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INFANT; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RISK FACTORS; TELEPHONE; YOUNG ADULT;

ARIZONA; TUCSON; UNITED STATES;

COCCIDIOIDES;

EID: 77649272076     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2010.02.013     Document Type: Article

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