Climate changes, environment and infection: Facts, scenarios and growing awareness from the public health community within Europe

Anaerobe

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 337-340

  Bezirtzoglou, Christos ^a   Dekas, Konstantinos ^b   Charvalos, Ekatherina ^c  

^a EUROPEAN COMMISSION   (Belgium)

^b IASO   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WEST ATTICA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Climate changes; Environment; Europe; Infections

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BREEDING; CAMPYLOBACTER ENTERITIS; CHIKUNGUNYA; CHIKUNGUNYA ALPHAVIRUS; CHOLERA; CLIMATE CHANGE; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CZECH REPUBLIC; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENVIRONMENT; EUROPE; FLOODING; GREECE; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INCIDENCE; INCUBATION TIME; INFECTION; ITALY; KENYA; LEPTOSPIROSIS; MALARIA; MALNUTRITION; MIGRATION; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PARASITOSIS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; SEA SURFACE WATERS; TEMPERATURE; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; VIRUS INFECTION; WATER CONTAMINATION;

ANIMALS; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DISEASE VECTORS; EUROPE; EUROPEAN UNION; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; PLANTS; PUBLIC HEALTH;

ANIMALIA; CAMPYLOBACTER; CHIKUNGUNYA VIRUS; HEXAPODA; RODENTIA;

EID: 84655167255     PISSN: 10759964     EISSN: 10958274     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anaerobe.2011.05.016     Document Type: Article

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