Model-Based Prediction of Nephropathia Epidemica Outbreaks Based on Climatological and Vegetation Data and Bank Vole Population Dynamics

Zoonoses and Public Health

Volumn 60, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 461-477

  Haredasht, S Amirpour ^a   Taylor, C J ^b   Maes, P ^c   Verstraeten, W W ^a,d,e   Clement, J ^c   Barrios, M ^a   Lagrou, K ^a   Van Ranst, M ^c   Coppin, P ^a   Berckmans, D ^a   Aerts, J M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c REGA INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Belgium)

^d ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

^e EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bank voles; Climate change; Hantaviruses; Human disease; Model; Nephropathia epidemica; Population dynamics; Prediction; Rodent born diseases; Satellite; Time series; Zoonoses

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ARTICLE; BEECH; BELGIUM; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL CARRYING CAPACITY; EPIDEMIC; FINLAND; FORECASTING; GROWING SEASON; HANTAVIRUS INFECTION; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MYODES GLAREOLUS; NEPHROPATHIA EPIDEMICA; NONHUMAN; OAK; PHENOLOGY; POPULATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEED PRODUCTION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VEGETATION; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; ZOONOSIS; ANIMAL; ARVICOLINAE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FOREST; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER WITH RENAL SYNDROME; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PLANT SEED; PUUMALA VIRUS; STATISTICAL MODEL; TEMPERATURE; TRANSMISSION; VETERINARY; VIROLOGY;

CLETHRIONOMYS GLAREOLUS; FAGUS; HANTAVIRUS; PUUMALA VIRUS; RODENTIA;

ANIMALS; ARVICOLINAE; BELGIUM; CLIMATE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FAGUS; FINLAND; FORESTS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER WITH RENAL SYNDROME; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PUUMALA VIRUS; QUERCUS; SEEDS; TEMPERATURE; ZOONOSES;

EID: 84885940135     PISSN: 18631959     EISSN: 18632378     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/zph.12021     Document Type: Article

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