Cholera Outbreak in Senegal in 2005: Was Climate a Factor?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Constantin de Magny, Guillaume ^a   Thiaw, Wassila ^b   Kumar, Vadlamani ^b   Manga, Noël M ^c   Diop, Bernard M ^c   Gueye, Lamine ^d   Kamara, Mamina ^e   Roche, Benjamin ^f   Murtugudde, Raghu ^g   Colwell, Rita R ^g,h,i  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^b CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

^c Clinique des Maladies Infectieuses du Centre National et Universitaire de Fann   (Senegal)

^d UNIVERSITÉ CHEIKH ANTA DIOP   (Senegal)

^e Agence Nationale de l'Aviation Civile et de la Météorologie ANACIM   (Senegal)

^f Sorbonne Universités   (France)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^h Bldg 142   (United States)

ⁱ The Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CHOLERA; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIDEMIC; FLOODING; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MORBIDITY; POPULATION SIZE; PRECIPITATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SENEGAL; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

CHOLERA; CLIMATE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; OCEANS AND SEAS; RAIN; SENEGAL; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS;

VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 84865646989     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0044577     Document Type: Article

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