Identifying high-risk areas of bacillary dysentery and associated meteorological factors in Wuhan, China

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Li, Zhenjun ^a   Wang, Ligui ^b   Sun, Weige ^c   Hou, Xuexin ^a   Yang, Haiyan ^c   Sun, Lina ^a   Xu, Shuai ^a   Sun, Qiangzheng ^a   Zhang, Jingshan ^a   Song, Hongbin ^b   Lin, Hualiang ^d  

^a National Institute for Communicable Diseases Prevention and Control   (China)

^b BEIJING INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY AND EPIDEMIOLOGY   (China)

^c ZHENGZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d GUANGZHOU CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHINA; DYSENTERY, BACILLARY; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; INCIDENCE; METEOROLOGICAL PHENOMENA; RISK; TEMPERATURE; THEORETICAL MODEL; WEATHER;

CHINA; DYSENTERY, BACILLARY; HUMANS; HUMIDITY; INCIDENCE; METEOROLOGICAL CONCEPTS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RISK; TEMPERATURE; WEATHER;

EID: 84888230429     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep03239     Document Type: Article

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