Highly localized sensitivity to climate forcing drives endemic cholera in a megacity

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 2033-2036

  Reiner, Robert C ^a,b,f   King, Aaron A ^a,b   Emch, Michael ^c   Yunus, Mohammad ^d   Faruque, A S G ^d   Pascual, Mercedes ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^d INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH   (Bangladesh)

^e HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cholera and flooding; Disease forecasting; Inhomogeneous Markov chain; Risk propagation; Spatiotemporal dynamics of urban cholera

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; CHOLERA; CITY; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENDEMIC DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATIVE FORCING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; URBAN AREA;

EID: 84857127215     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1108438109     Document Type: Article

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