Spatial and temporal variation and hotspot detection of kala-azar disease in Vaishali district (Bihar), India

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Bhunia, Gouri Sankar ^a   Kesari, Shreekant ^a   Chatterjee, Nandini ^b   Kumar, Vijay ^a   Das, Pradeep ^a  

^a RAJENDRA MEMORIAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b PRESIDENCY UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Hotspot; Kala azar; Spatial statistics; Spatio temporal

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOSTATISTICS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISEASE ACTIVITY; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INDIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREDICTION; SPATIAL AUTOCORRELATION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INDIA; LEISHMANIASIS, VISCERAL; SPATIO-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84873023189     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-13-64     Document Type: Article

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