Clusters of spatial, temporal, and space-time distribution of hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome in Liaoning Province, Northeastern China

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Wu, Wei ^a   Guo, Junqiao ^b   Guan, Peng ^a   Sun, Yingwei ^b   Zhou, Baosen ^a  

^a CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Liaoning Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHINA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRUSH SYNDROME; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MUTATION RATE; PUBLIC HEALTH; SPATIAL AUTOCORRELATION ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHY; HANTAVIRUS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER WITH RENAL SYNDROME; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TIME;

CHINA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHY; HANTAVIRUS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER WITH RENAL SYNDROME; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 80052031953     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-11-229     Document Type: Article

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