Permissive summer temperatures of the 2010 European West Nile fever upsurge.

Autor: Shlomit Paz, Dan Malkinson, Manfred S Green, Gil Tsioni, Anna Papa, Kostas Danis, Anca Sirbu, Cornelia Ceianu, Krisztalovics Katalin, Emőke Ferenczi, Herve Zeller, Jan C Semenza
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2013
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Zdroj: PLoS ONE, Vol 8, Iss 2, p e56398 (2013)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1932-6203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0056398
Popis: BACKGROUND: In the summer of 2010, Europe experienced outbreaks of West Nile Fever (WNF) in humans, which was preceded by hot spells. The objective of this study was to identify potential drivers of these outbreaks, such as spring and summer temperatures, relative humidity (RH), and precipitation. METHODS: Pearson and lag correlations, binary and multinomial logistic regressions were used to assess the relationship between the climatic parameters and these outbreaks. RESULTS: For human morbidity, significant (
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