Early detection of an epidemic erythromelalgia outbreak using Baidu search data

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Gu, Yuzhou ^a   Chen, Fengling ^b   Liu, Tao ^a   Lv, Xiaojuan ^a   Shao, Zhaoming ^b   Lin, Hualiang ^a   Liang, Chaobin ^b   Zeng, Weilin ^a   Xiao, Jianpeng ^a   Zhang, Yonghui ^a   Huang, Cunrui ^c   Rutherford, Shannon ^d   Ma, Wenjun ^a  

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

^b Chancheng Prefectural Center for Disease Control and Prevention of Guangdong Province   (China)

^c SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CHINA; DATA MINING; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EPIDEMIC; ERYTHROMELALGIA; ETHNOLOGY; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CHINA; DATA MINING; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EPIDEMICS; ERYTHROMELALGIA; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84938150088     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep12649     Document Type: Article

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