Climate variability and outbreaks of infectious diseases in Europe

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Morand, Serge ^a,b   Owers, Katharine A ^a   Waret Szkuta, Agnes ^b   McIntyre, K Marie ^c   Baylis, Matthew ^c  

^a INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

^b UMR ASTRE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; EPIDEMIC; EUROPE; HUMAN; SEASON; TEMPERATURE; ARTICLE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE;

CLIMATE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EUROPE; HUMANS; SEASONS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84878643494     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep01774     Document Type: Article

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