Climate change influences infectious diseases both in the Arctic and the tropics: Joining the dots

Global Health Action

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Evengård, Birgitta ^a   Sauerborn, Rainer ^a,b  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

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EID: 78549274173     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16549880     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/gha.v2i0.2106     Document Type: Article

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