Relationship between climate conditions and nosocomial infection rates

African Health Sciences

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 339-343

  Chen, Y ^a   Xu, X ^a   Liang, J ^b   Lin, Hongyan ^a  

^a GUANGZHOU MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Guangdong Provincial Meteorological Observatory   (China)

Author keywords

Climate conditions; Nosocomial infection; Relative humidity; Temperature

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHINA; CLIMATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; GERIATRIC HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; INFECTION RATE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY;

CLIMATE CONDITIONS; NOSOCOMIAL INFECTION; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; TEMPERATURE;

AGED; CHINA; COLD TEMPERATURE; CROSS INFECTION; GERIATRIC NURSING; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENTS; HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; HUMIDITY; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84883687084     PISSN: 16806905     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4314/ahs.v13i2.20     Document Type: Article

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