Effect of climate change on vector-borne disease risk in the UK

The Lancet Infectious Diseases

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 721-730

  Medlock, Jolyon M ^a   Leach, Steve A ^a  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEDES; AEDES AEGYPTI; AEDES ALBOPICTUS; AEDES JAPONICUS; AVIATION; BLUETONGUE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BOUTONNEUSE FEVER; CHIKUNGUNYA; CLIMATE CHANGE; CRIMEAN CONGO HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; CULEX; CULEX MODESTUS; DENGUE; DERMACENTOR RETICULATUS; DROUGHT; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; EPIDEMIC; FLOODING; HAEMAPHYSALIS PUNCTATA; HUMAN; HYALOMMA MARGINATUM; IXODES RICINUS; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIASIS; LYME DISEASE; MALARIA; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; NONHUMAN; ORTHOBUNYAVIRUS INFECTION; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITE VECTOR; PLASMODIUM VIVAX MALARIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RHIPICEPHALUS SANGUINEUS; SCHMALLENBERG VIRUS; SEA LEVEL RISE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SHIPPING; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS; TICK INFESTATION; UNITED KINGDOM; URBAN AREA; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WEST NILE FEVER; WETLAND; YELLOW FEVER; ANIMAL; DISEASE CARRIER; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PROTOZOAN INFECTIONS; RISK ASSESSMENT; VIRUS DISEASES;

ANIMALS; CLIMATE CHANGE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; PROTOZOAN INFECTIONS; RISK ASSESSMENT; VIRUS DISEASES;

EID: 84929502037     PISSN: 14733099     EISSN: 14744457     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1473-3099(15)70091-5     Document Type: Review

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