Climate and non-climate drivers of dengue epidemics in southern coastal Ecuador

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 88, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 971-981

  Stewart Ibarra, Anna M ^a   Lowe, Rachel ^b  

^a SUNY UPSTATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Catalan Institute of Climate Sciences (IC3)   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

AEDES AEGYPTI; ARTICLE; CLIMATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENGUE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EL NINO; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; EPIDEMIC; MORBIDITY; MOSQUITO; SEROTYPE; VECTOR CONTROL;

AEDES; ANIMALS; CLIMATE; DENGUE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ECUADOR; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; EPIDEMICS; FORECASTING; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RAIN; SEAWATER; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS; WEATHER;

AEDES AEGYPTI;

EID: 84877140182     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.12-0478     Document Type: Article

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