The role of climate variability in the spread of malaria in bangladeshi highlands

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Haque, Ubydul ^a   Hashizume, Masahiro ^a   Glass, Gregory E ^b   Dewan, Ashraf M ^c,d   Overgaard, Hans J ^e   Yamamoto, Taro ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF DHAKA   (Bangladesh)

^d CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOPHELES; ANOPHELES DIRUS; ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; BREEDING SUCCESS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EL NINO; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FAUNA; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; MALARIA; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TRANSITION TEMPERATURE; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; ANIMAL; CLIMATE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHY; MOSQUITO; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; TEMPERATURE; WEATHER;

RAIN;

ANIMALS; BANGLADESH; CLIMATE; CULICIDAE; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; FOURIER ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; HUMIDITY; MALARIA; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RAIN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE; WEATHER;

EID: 78650754738     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0014341     Document Type: Article

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