Association between incidence of Lyme disease and spring-early summer season temperature changes in Hungary - 1998-2010

Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 245-251

  Trájer, Attila ^a,b   Bobvos, János ^a   Páldy, Anna ^a   Krisztalovics, Katalin ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Hungary)

^b SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Climate change; Indicator species; Ixodes ricinus; Lyme borreliosis; Pannonian biogeographical region

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; HUMAN; HUNGARY; INCIDENCE; LYME DISEASE; SEASONAL VARIATION; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TREND STUDY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; HUMANS; HUNGARY; INCIDENCE; LINEAR MODELS; LYME DISEASE; METEOROLOGY; SEASONS; TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALIA; IXODES RICINUS;

EID: 84878931058     PISSN: 12321966     EISSN: 18982263     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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