Seasonality of viral infections: Mechanisms and unknowns

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 946-954

  Fisman, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Climate change; Ecosystem; Epidemiology; Seasonality; Virus

Indexed keywords

DISEASE CARRIER; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; GASTROINTESTINAL INFECTION; HOST SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INCIDENCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; REVIEW; SEASONAL VARIATION; SURVIVAL RATE; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS VIRULENCE; ZOONOSIS;

EID: 84866147167     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2012.03968.x     Document Type: Review

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