Environmental and demographic risk factors for campylobacteriosis: Do various geographical scales tell the same story?

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 12, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Arsenault, Julie ^a   Berke, Olaf ^c   Michel, Pascal ^a,b   Ravel, André ^a,b   Gosselin, Pierre ^a,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^d INSTITUT NATIONAL DE SANTÉ PUBLIQUE DU QUÉBEC   (Canada)

^e LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Campylobacteriosis; Climate; Modifiable areal unit problem; Poultry; Quebec; Ruminants; Spatial

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ARTICLE; CAMPYLOBACTERIOSIS; CANADA; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; POPULATION DENSITY; PRECIPITATION; PREDICTION; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; SLAUGHTERHOUSE; TEMPERATURE;

CAMPYLOBACTER; CAMPYLOBACTER INFECTIONS; CLIMATE; DEMOGRAPHY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; QUEBEC; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84869885323     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-12-318     Document Type: Article

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