Lack of association of dengue activity with haze

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 138, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 962-967

  Wilder Smith, A ^a,b   Earnest, A ^a,c   Tan, S B ^a,d   Ooi, E E ^a   Gubler, D J ^a  

^a DUKE NUS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c TAN TOCK SENG HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^d SINGAPORE CLINICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

ARIMA; Autoregressive integrated moving average; Climate; Dengue; Fire; Haze; Predictive models

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DENGUE; DENGUE VIRUS; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; HAZE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POLLUTION; RATING SCALE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SINGAPORE; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; ANIMALS; CULICIDAE; DENGUE; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PARTICULATE MATTER; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SINGAPORE; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 77953618421     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268810000683     Document Type: Article

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