Climate change and respiratory infections

Annals of the American Thoracic Society

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 1223-1230

  Mirsaeidi, Mehdi ^a   Motahari, Hooman ^a   Khamesi, Mojdeh Taghizadeh ^a   Sharifi, Arash ^b   Campos, Michael ^a   Schraufnagel, Dean E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Infection; Lung disease; Pneumonia

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; REVIEW; VIRUS INFECTION; EPIDEMIC; PUBLIC HEALTH;

AIR POLLUTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; GLOBAL WARMING; HUMANS; PUBLIC HEALTH; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 85012923086     PISSN: 23256621     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1513/AnnalsATS.201511-729PS     Document Type: Review

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