Modelling the association of dengue fever cases with temperature and relative humidity in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia—A generalised linear model with break-point analysis

Acta Tropica

Volumn 168, Issue , 2017, Pages 9-15

  Alkhaldy, Ibrahim ^a  

^a UMM AL QURA UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

A. aegypti; Break point; Dengue fever; GLM; Jeddah; Relative humidity; Temperature

Indexed keywords

DENGUE FEVER; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; LINEARITY; MOSQUITO; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

AKAIKE INFORMATION CRITERION; ARTICLE; BREAK-POINT ANALYSIS; CITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENGUE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; METEOROLOGICAL PARAMETERS; METEOROLOGY; PERFORMANCE; PREDICTION; SAUDI ARABIA; STATISTICAL MODEL; TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION; VALIDATION STUDY; CLIMATE; INCIDENCE; SEASON; TEMPERATURE;

JEDDAH; MAKKAH [SAUDI ARABIA]; SAUDI ARABIA;

CITIES; CLIMATE; DENGUE; HUMANS; HUMIDITY; INCIDENCE; LINEAR MODELS; SAUDI ARABIA; SEASONS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 85008978654     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: 18736254     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2016.12.034     Document Type: Article

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