Climate and Landscape Factors Associated with Buruli Ulcer Incidence in Victoria, Australia

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  van Ravensway, Jenni ^a   Benbow, M Eric ^b   Tsonis, Anastasios A ^c   Pierce, Steven J ^a   Campbell, Lindsay P ^d   Fyfe, Janet A M ^e   Hayman, John A ^f   Johnson, Paul D R ^g   Wallace, John R ^h   Qi, Jiaguo ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^e VICTORIAN INFECTIOUS DISEASES REFERENCE LABORATORY   (Australia)

^f MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^g AUSTIN HEALTH   (Australia)

^h Department of Biology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BURULI ULCER; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HELP SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INCUBATION TIME; LANDSCAPE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREVALENCE;

BURULI ULCER; CLIMATE; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; VICTORIA;

MYCOBACTERIUM ULCERANS;

EID: 84870881689     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0051074     Document Type: Article

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