Soil dust aerosols and wind as predictors of seasonal meningitis incidence in niger

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 122, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 679-686

  García Pando, Carlos Pérez ^a,b   Stanton, Michelle C ^c,d   Diggle, Peter J ^c,e   Trzaska, Sylwia ^f   Miller, Ron L ^a,b   Perlwitz, Jan P ^a,b   Baldasano, José M ^g   Cuevas, Emilio ^h   Ceccato, Pietro ^f   Yaka, Pascal ⁱ   Thomson, Madeleine C ^f,j  

^a NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

^b Department of Applied Physics and Applied Math Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^c LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^f Earth Institute   (United States)

^g BARCELONA SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER   (Spain)

^h Izaña Atmospheric Research Center Agencia Estatal de Meteorología AEMET   (Spain)

ⁱ Office of Civil Aviation and Meteorology General Direction   (Burkina Faso)

^j Department of Environmental Health Sciences Mailman School of Public Health Columbia University ^*  (United States)

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DUST EXPOSURE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE THRESHOLD; MENINGITIS; MORBIDITY; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NIGER; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOIL DUST AEROSOL; WIND; ANALYSIS; CLIMATE; DUST; FORECASTING; INCIDENCE; MENINGITIS, MENINGOCOCCAL; MICROBIOLOGY; SEASON; SOIL; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AEROSOL; DUST; SOIL;

AEROSOLS; CLIMATE; DUST; FORECASTING; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LINEAR MODELS; MENINGITIS, MENINGOCOCCAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NIGER; SEASONS; SOIL; WIND;

EID: 84903788972     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1306640     Document Type: Article

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