Climate and dengue transmission: Evidence and implications

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 121, Issue 11-12, 2013, Pages 1264-1272

  Morin, Cory W ^a   Comrie, Andrew C ^a   Ernst, Kacey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEDES; CLIMATE CHANGE; DENGUE; DENGUE VIRUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; INCIDENCE; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SURVIVAL RATE; TEMPERATURE; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

AEDES; ANIMALS; CLIMATE CHANGE; DENGUE; DENGUE VIRUS; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RAIN; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84888409452     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1306556     Document Type: Review

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