The Effect of Global Warming on Infectious Diseases

Osong Public Health and Research Perspectives

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 4-9

  Kurane, Ichiro ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dengue fever; Global warming; Japanese encephalitis; Vector borne infectious diseases; Water and foodborne infectious diseases

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

AEDES ALBOPICTUS; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; CHIKUNGUNYA; CHOLERA; CLIMATE; DENGUE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HUMAN; INFECTION; INFECTION RISK; INFECTIOUS DIARRHEA; JAPAN; JAPANESE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS; MALARIA; MOSQUITO; MURRAY VALLEY ENCEPHALITIS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITE VECTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; ROSS RIVER ALPHA VIRUS; SEROCONVERSION; SUMMER; SWINE; TEMPERATURE ACCLIMATIZATION; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS; VIRUS CARRIER; WATER CONTAMINATION;

EID: 79955452263     PISSN: 22109099     EISSN: 22109110     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.phrp.2010.12.004     Document Type: Review

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