Investigating the Effects of Food Available and Climatic Variables on the Animal Host Density of Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome in Changsha, China

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Xiao, Hong ^a   Liu, Hai Ning ^a   Gao, Li Dong ^b   Huang, Cun Rui ^c   Li, Zhou ^d,e   Lin, Xiao Ling ^a   Chen, Bi Yun ^b   Tian, Huai Yu ^a  

^a HUNAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Hunan Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention   (China)

^c GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e Beijing Energy Conservation and Environmental Protection Center   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHINA; CLIMATE CHANGE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; EPIDEMIC; EXPLANATORY VARIABLE; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FORECASTING; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER WITH RENAL SYNDROME; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION PREVENTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRECIPITATION; RAT; RODENT; TEMPERATURE VEGETATION DRYNESS INDEX;

ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; CHINA; CLIMATE; DISEASE VECTORS; GEOGRAPHY; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER WITH RENAL SYNDROME; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RODENTIA; SEASONS;

ANIMALIA; RODENTIA;

EID: 84876522872     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0061536     Document Type: Article

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