Statistical Modeling Reveals the Effect of Absolute Humidity on Dengue in Singapore

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Xu, Hai Yan ^a   Fu, Xiuju ^a   Lee, Lionel Kim Hock ^b   Ma, Stefan ^c   Goh, Kee Tai ^c   Wong, Jiancheng ^a   Habibullah, Mohamed Salahuddin ^a   Lee, Gary Kee Khoon ^a   Lim, Tian Kuay ^d   Tambyah, Paul Anantharajah ^e   Lim, Chin Leong ^f   Ng, Lee Ching ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Singapore)

^d NATIONAL ENVIRONMENT AGENCY   (Singapore)

^e NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^f Performance Enhancement Institute   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

ARTICLE; DENGUE; DENGUE VIRUS; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HERD IMMUNITY; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; INCIDENCE; INFECTION RISK; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; NONLINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGY; SEROTYPE; SINGAPORE; STATISTICAL MODEL; VECTOR CONTROL; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WIND; TEMPERATURE; TRANSMISSION;

DENGUE; HUMANS; HUMIDITY; INCIDENCE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SINGAPORE; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84901812864     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0002805     Document Type: Article

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