Estimated effect of climatic variables on the transmission of plasmodium vivax malaria in the republic of Korea

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 120, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1314-1319

  Kim, Young Min ^a   Park, Jae Won ^b   Cheong, Hae Kwan ^a  

^a Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Gachon University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Climate change; Climatic variables; Distributed lag nonlinear model; Generalized linear poisson model; Incubation period; Plasmodium vivax malaria; Temperate region

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; INCIDENCE; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PLASMODIUM VIVAX MALARIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOUTH KOREA; SUNLIGHT;

PLASMODIUM VIVAX;

EID: 84930479652     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1104577     Document Type: Article

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