Effects of climate change on tularaemia disease activity in Sweden

Global Health Action

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Rydén, Patrik ^a   Sjöstedt, Anders ^a   Johansson, Anders ^a,b  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH DEFENCE RESEARCH AGENCY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Climate; Epidemiology; Forecast; Francisella tularensis; Models; Rain; Statistical; Sweden; Temperature; Tularaemia

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859106028     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16549880     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/gha.v2i0.2063     Document Type: Article

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