Impact of climate change and man-made irrigation systems on the transmission risk, long-term trend and seasonality of human and animal fascioliasis in Pakistan

Geospatial Health

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 317-334

  Afshan, Kiran ^a,b   Fortes Lima, Cesar A ^a   Artigas, Patricio ^a   Valero, Adela M ^a   Qayyum, Mazhar ^b   Mas Coma, Santiago ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b PMAS ARID AGRICULTURE UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Climate change; Climatic data; Fasciola gigantica; Fasciola hepatica; Fascioliasis; Forecast indices; Humans; Livestock; Normalized difference vegetation index; Pakistan

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL; CLIMATE CHANGE; FASCIOLA; FASCIOLA HEPATICA; FASCIOLIASIS; HUMAN; LIVESTOCK; PAKISTAN; PARASITOLOGY; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; SEASON; TRANSMISSION; VETERINARY;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; CLIMATE CHANGE; FASCIOLA; FASCIOLA HEPATICA; FASCIOLIASIS; HUMANS; LIVESTOCK; PAKISTAN; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SEASONS;

EID: 84901605709     PISSN: 18271987     EISSN: 19707096     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4081/gh.2014.22     Document Type: Article

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