Spatio-temporal clustering of American Cutaneous Leishmaniasis in a rural municipality of Venezuela

Epidemics

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 11-19

  Rodríguez, Eva Mary ^a   Díaz, Francisco ^a   Pérez, María Virginia ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DE VENEZUELA   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

Geographical information systems (GIS); Leishmaniasis; Space temporal clustering transmission patterns; Space time cluster analysis; Space time permutation scan statistic

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RURAL POPULATION; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VENEZUELA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENDEMIC DISEASES; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RURAL POPULATION; SPACE-TIME CLUSTERING; VENEZUELA;

EID: 84869128531     PISSN: 17554365     EISSN: 18780067     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epidem.2012.10.002     Document Type: Article

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