Spatial analysis of scrub typhus infection and its association with environmental and socioeconomic factors in Taiwan

Acta Tropica

Volumn 120, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 52-58

  Kuo, Chi Chien ^a,b   Huang, Jing Lun ^a   Ko, Chia Ying ^c   Lee, Pei Fen ^c   Wang, Hsi Chieh ^a  

^a CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Environment; Orientia tsutsugamushi; Scrub typhus; Socioeconomic factors; Taiwan; Trombiculidae

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE INCIDENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HEALTH RISK; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; MOUNTAIN REGION; NDVI; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; APODERMUS AGRARIUS; ARTICLE; BANDICOTA INDICA; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROCIDURA ATTENUATA; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HOST; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFECTION RATE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOUSE; MUS CAROLI; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RATTUS LOSEA; RURAL AREA; SCHOOL CHILD; SCRUB TYPHUS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; SUNCUS MURINUS; TAIWAN; TEMPERATURE; TROMBICULIDAE; URBAN AREA; VEGETATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INSECT VECTORS; MALE; MICE; MIDDLE AGED; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; POPULATION DENSITY; RATS; SCRUB TYPHUS; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SHREWS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TAIWAN; TROMBICULIDAE; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

TAIWAN;

MAMMALIA; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; TROMBICULIDAE;

EID: 80052080173     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: 18736254     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2011.05.018     Document Type: Article

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