A large temperature fluctuation may trigger an epidemic erythromelalgia outbreak in China

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Liu, Tao ^a,b   Zhang, Yonghui ^a   Lin, Hualiang ^a,b   Lv, Xiaojuan ^c   Xiao, Jianpeng ^a,b   Zeng, Weilin ^a,b   Gu, Yuzhou ^d   Rutherford, Shannon ^e   Tong, Shilu ^f   Ma, Wenjun ^a,b  

^a GUANGZHOU CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

^b Environment and Health Guangdong Provincial Key Medical Discipline of Twelfth Five Year Plan   (China)

^c SOUTHERN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d JINAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^f QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHINA; EPIDEMIC; ERYTHROMELALGIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY; META ANALYSIS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; TEMPERATURE;

CHINA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ERYTHROMELALGIA; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY, MEDICAL; HUMANS; MALE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84925841939     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep09525     Document Type: Article

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