Climate variability, weather and enteric disease incidence in New Zealand: Time series analysis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Lal, Aparna ^a   Ikeda, Takayoshi ^a   French, Nigel ^b   Baker, Michael G ^a   Hales, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; NEW ZEALAND; SEASON; STATISTICAL MODEL; TEMPERATURE; TIME; WEATHER;

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEW ZEALAND; RAIN; SEASONS; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS; WEATHER;

EID: 84893480785     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0083484     Document Type: Article

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