Influenza transmission during extreme indoor conditions in a low-resource tropical setting

International Journal of Biometeorology

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 613-622

  Tamerius, James ^a   Ojeda, Sergio ^b   Uejio, Christopher K ^c,d   Shaman, Jeffrey ^e   Lopez, Brenda ^b   Sanchez, Nery ^b   Gordon, Aubree ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b Sustainable Sciences Institute   (Nicaragua)

^c FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^e Department of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS DNA;

ENVIRONMENT; GENETICS; HOUSING; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA A VIRUS; NICARAGUA; TEMPERATURE; TRANSMISSION; TROPIC CLIMATE;

DNA, VIRAL; ENVIRONMENT; HOUSING; HUMANS; HUMIDITY; INFLUENZA A VIRUS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; NICARAGUA; TEMPERATURE; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 84983400262     PISSN: 00207128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00484-016-1238-4     Document Type: Article

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