Associations between seasonal influenza and meteorological parameters in Costa Rica, Honduras and Nicaragua
| Autor: | Jenny Lara, Mariel Lopez Moya, Richard K. Kiang, Angel Balmaseda, Eduardo Azziz-Baumgartner, Radina P. Soebiyanto, Jorge Jara, Marc-Alain Widdowson, Wilfrido Clara, Rakhee Palekar |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Costa Rica
Male Rainfall Veterinary medicine Health (social science) Rain Geography Planning and Development lcsh:G1-922 Medicine (miscellaneous) Nicaragua Logistic regression Seasonal influenza Global population Environmental protection Influenza Human medicine Humans Weather Health Policy Confounding Temperature Humidity Central America Odds ratio Seasonality medicine.disease Influenza Geography Honduras Air temperature Female Seasons Sentinel Surveillance lcsh:Geography (General) |
| Zdroj: | Geospatial Health, Vol 10, Iss 2 (2015) |
| ISSN: | 1970-7096 1827-1987 |
| DOI: | 10.4081/gh.2015.372 |
| Popis: | Seasonal influenza affects a considerable proportion of the global population each year. We assessed the association between subnational influenza activity and temperature, specific humidity and rainfall in three Central America countries, i.e. Costa Rica, Honduras and Nicaragua. Using virologic data from each country’s national influenza centre, rainfall from the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission and air temperature and specific humidity data from the Global Land Data Assimilation System, we applied logistic regression methods for each of the five sub-national locations studied. Influenza activity was represented by the weekly proportion of respiratory specimens that tested positive for influenza. The models were adjusted for the potentially confounding co-circulating respiratory viruses, seasonality and previous weeks’ influenza activity. We found that influenza activity was proportionally associated (P |
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