The calendar of epidemics: Seasonal cycles of infectious diseases

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 14, Issue 11, 2018, Pages

  Martinez, Micaela Elvira ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; CHOLERA; CIRCANNUAL RHYTHM; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DYNAMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIDEMIC; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; HEPATITIS; HERPES ZOSTER; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFECTION; INFLUENZA; JAPANESE ENCEPHALITIS; LASSA FEVER; LEGIONNAIRE DISEASE; LEISHMANIASIS; LEPROSY; LEPTOSPIROSIS; LYME DISEASE; LYMPHATIC FILARIASIS; MALARIA; MARBURG HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; MEASLES; MENINGOCOCCOSIS; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; MIXED INFECTION; MORTALITY; ONCHOCERCIASIS; PERTUSSIS; PHENOLOGY; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUS INFECTION; REVIEW; SEASONAL VARIATION; SELF MEDICATION; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; ZIKA VIRUS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; PUBLICATION; SEASON;

CALENDARS AS TOPIC; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; EPIDEMICS; HUMANS; SEASONS;

EID: 85056407012     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1007327     Document Type: Review

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