Climate predictors of the spatial distribution of human plague cases in the West Nile region of Uganda

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 514-523

  MacMillan, Katherine ^a   Monaghan, Andrew J ^b   Apangu, Titus ^c   Griffith, Kevin S ^a   Mead, Paul S ^a   Acayo, Sarah ^c   Acidri, Rogers ^c   Moore, Sean M ^b   Mpanga, Joseph Tendo ^c   Enscore, Russel E ^a   Gage, Kenneth L ^a   Eisen, Rebecca J ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UGANDA VIRUS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Uganda)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PLAGUE; POPULATION RISK; PREDICTION; UGANDA;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CLIMATE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PLAGUE; RISK FACTORS; UGANDA; YERSINIA PESTIS;

YERSINIA PESTIS;

EID: 84859593277     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2012.11-0569     Document Type: Article

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