Climate variability and nonstationary dynamics of mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia in Japan

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Onozuka, Daisuke ^a   Chaves, Luis Fernando ^b,c  

^a FUKUOKA INSTITUTE OF HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL   (Costa Rica)

^c NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CHILD; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; INCIDENCE; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; NONHUMAN; PNEUMONIA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL CHILD; SEASONAL VARIATION; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; EL NINO; EPIDEMIC; INDIAN OCEAN; PHYSIOLOGY; PNEUMONIA, MYCOPLASMA; SEASON; STATISTICAL MODEL; TEMPERATURE; TRANSMISSION;

DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; HUMANS; INDIAN OCEAN; JAPAN; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; PNEUMONIA, MYCOPLASMA; SEASONS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84899695243     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0095447     Document Type: Article

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