Epidemiological features of hand-foot-and-mouth disease in Shenzhen, China from 2008 to 2010

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 142, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1751-1762

  Zheng, S ^a,b   Cao, C X ^a   Cheng, J Q ^c   Wu, Y S ^c   Xie, X ^c   Xu, M ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c SHENZHEN CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

Author keywords

Geographically weighted regression; hand foot and mouth disease (HFMD); Shenzhen; spatio temporal distribution

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHINA; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HAND FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALE; METEOROLOGICAL PHENOMENA; PRECIPITATION; SEASONAL VARIATION;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHINA; FEMALE; HAND, FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MALE; METEOROLOGICAL CONCEPTS; RAIN; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SPATIO-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84900402795     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268813002586     Document Type: Article

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