Space-time clusters of dengue fever in Bangladesh

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1086-1091

  Banu, Shahera ^a   Hu, Wenbiao ^b   Hurst, Cameron ^a   Guo, Yuming ^a   Islam, Mohammad Zahirul ^c   Tong, Shilu ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bangladesh; Dengue fever; Scan statistic; Space time cluster

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DENGUE FEVER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GIS; POISSON RATIO; SOFTWARE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL PERIOD;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; DENGUE; DENGUE VIRUS; EPIDEMIC; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION PREVENTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POPULATION RESEARCH; SPACE TIME ANALYSIS; TIME; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

BANGLADESH; DENGUE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HUMANS; RISK FACTORS; SPACE-TIME CLUSTERING;

BANGLADESH;

EID: 84865569135     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: 13653156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2012.03038.x     Document Type: Article

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