Cholera in Bangladesh: Climatic components of seasonal variation

Epidemiology

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 706-710

  Hashizume, Masahiro ^a   Faruque, Abu S G ^b   Wagatsuma, Yukiko ^c   Hayashi, Taiichi ^d   Armstrong, Ben ^e  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH   (Bangladesh)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^d KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; CHOLERA; GLOBAL CLIMATE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; WEATHER;

BANGLADESH; CHOLERA; CLIMATE; HUMANS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RAIN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEASONS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 77955924248     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/EDE.0b013e3181e5b053     Document Type: Article

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