Determinants of tick-borne encephalitis in counties of southern Germany, 2001-2008

International Journal of Health Geographics

Volumn 9, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Kiffner, Christian ^a   Zucchini, Walter ^a   Schomaker, Philipp ^a   Vor, Torsten ^a   Hagedorn, Peter ^b   Niedrig, Matthias ^b   Rühe, Ferdinand ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; AUTOCORRELATION; CLIMATE EFFECT; DISEASE INCIDENCE; DISEASE PREVALENCE; DISEASE VECTOR; ENCEPHALITIS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FRAGMENTATION; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; LOGISTICS; PATHOGEN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TICK;

GERMANY;

CAPREOLUS; CAPREOLUS CAPREOLUS; CERVUS ELAPHUS; IXODIDA; RODENTIA; TICK-BORNE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS; VULPES; VULPES VULPES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHILD; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; GERMANY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; INFANT; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; STATISTICAL MODEL; TEMPERATURE; THEORETICAL MODEL; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS FLAVIVIRUS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANIMALS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUSES, TICK-BORNE; ENCEPHALITIS, TICK-BORNE; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; GERMANY; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; TEMPERATURE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77955481749     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1476072X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-072X-9-42     Document Type: Article

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