Geographical gradient of mean age of dengue haemorrhagic fever patients in northern Thailand

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 140, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 479-490

  Nagao, Y ^a   Tawatsin, A ^b   Thammapalo, S ^b   Thavara, U ^b  

^a Yao Tokushukai General Hospital   (Japan)

^b MINISTRY OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Aedes; climate; demographic structure; Geographic Information System; socioeconomics; spatial analysis; transmission intensity; vector mosquito abundance

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AEDES; AGE; ARTICLE; BIRTH RATE; CHILD; CLIMATE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DENGUE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCHOOL CHILD; SOCIOECONOMICS; THAILAND;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AEDES; AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; CHILD; DENGUE; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SOFTWARE; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; THAILAND; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84856294635     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268811000653     Document Type: Article

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