Climate variability and hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome transmission in northeastern China

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 118, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 915-920

  Zhang, Wen Yi ^a   Gu, Wei Dong ^b   Fang, Li Qun ^a   Li, Chang Ping ^c   Bi, Peng ^d   Glass, Gregory E ^e   Jiang, Jia Fu ^a   Sun, Shan Hua ^f   Qian, Quan ^a   Liu, Wei ^a   Yan, Lei ^f   Yang, Hong ^a   Tong, Shi Lu ^g   Cao, Wu Chun ^a  

^a BEIJING INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY AND EPIDEMIOLOGY   (China)

^b Inner Mongolia Center for Disease Control and Prevention   (China)

^c TIANJIN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^f CHINESE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

^g QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

China; Cross correlation; Forecast; Hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome; Risk factors; Time series Poisson regression

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; CHINA; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CONTROL; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER WITH RENAL SYNDROME; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; SEASONAL VARIATION; TEMPERATURE; TREND STUDY; WINTER; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLIMATE; INCIDENCE; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TRANSMISSION;

CHINA; CLIMATE; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER WITH RENAL SYNDROME; HUMANS; HUMIDITY; INCIDENCE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RAIN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 77954854710     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.0901504     Document Type: Article

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