Correlations between climate factors and incidence-a contributor to RSV seasonality

Reviews in Medical Virology

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 15-34

  Tang, Julian W ^a,b   Loh, Tze Ping ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; INCIDENCE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL PNEUMOVIRUS; REVIEW; SEASONAL VARIATION; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TEMPERATE COUNTRY; TEMPERATURE; TROPICS; VIRUS INFECTION;

CLIMATE; HUMANS; HUMIDITY; INCIDENCE; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUS INFECTIONS; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUS, HUMAN; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; SEASONS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84892486660     PISSN: 10529276     EISSN: 10991654     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rmv.1771     Document Type: Review

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