Climate variability and increase in intensity and magnitude of dengue incidence in Singapore

Global Health Action

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Hii, Yien Ling ^a   Rocklöv, Joacim ^a   Ng, Nawi ^a   Tang, Choon Siang ^b   Pang, Fung Yin ^b   Sauerborn, Rainer ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b NATIONAL ENVIRONMENT AGENCY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Aedes aegypti; Climate variability; Dengue fever; Incidence; Mean temperature; Precipitation; Weather

Indexed keywords

EID: 79954958044     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16549880     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/gha.v2i0.2036     Document Type: Article

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