Lagged temperature effect with mosquito transmission potential explains dengue variability in southern Taiwan: Insights from a statistical analysis

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 408, Issue 19, 2010, Pages 4069-4075

  Chen, Szu Chieh ^a,b   Liao, Chung Min ^c   Chio, Chia Pin ^c   Chou, Hsiao Han ^a   You, Shu Han ^a   Cheng, Yi Hsien ^c  

^a CHUNG SHAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CHUNG SHAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Aedes aegypti; Dengue; Humidity; Mosquito; Poisson regression; Rainfall; Temperature

Indexed keywords

AEDES AEGYPTI; CLIMATE VARIATION; DENGUE; ELEVATED HUMIDITY; GENERALIZED ESTIMATING EQUATIONS; INCIDENCE RATE; INFORMATION CRITERION; MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE; METEOROLOGICAL FACTORS; METEOROLOGICAL VARIABLES; POISSON REGRESSION; POISSON REGRESSION ANALYSIS; POTENTIAL EFFECTS; QUASI-LIKELIHOOD; RELATIVE HUMIDITIES; SOUTHERN TAIWAN; SPEARMAN'S RANK CORRELATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE EFFECTS; TIME LAG; TRANSMISSION POTENTIAL; TRANSMISSION RATES;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; MOISTURE; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RAIN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

STATISTICAL TESTS;

RAIN;

ABUNDANCE; CORRELATION; DENGUE FEVER; DISEASE INCIDENCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOSQUITO; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; RAINFALL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TREND ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DENGUE VIRUS; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; INCIDENCE; METEOROLOGICAL PHENOMENA; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION DENSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TAIWAN; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

AEDES; ANIMALS; DENGUE; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; TAIWAN; TEMPERATURE;

KAOHSIUNG; TAIPEI; TAIWAN;

AEDES AEGYPTI;

EID: 77954624442     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2010.05.021     Document Type: Article

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