Climate variability and Ross River virus transmission in Townsville Region, Australia, 1985-1996

Date

2004

Authors

Tong, S
Hu, Wenbiao
McMichael, Anthony

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Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Abstract

BACKGROUND: How climate variability affects the transmission of infectious diseases at a regional level remains unclear. We assess the impact of climate variation on the Ross River virus (RRv) transmission in the Townsville region, Queensland, north-east

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Keywords: rain; viral disease; article; Australia; calculation; climate change; correlation analysis; environmental temperature; human; humidity; incidence; model; population growth; population research; Ross River alpha virus; sea level; seasonal variation; tide; Climate change; Cross-correlation function; Ross River virus; Seasonal auto-regressive integrated moving average; Time series

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http://hdl.handle.net/1885/76958

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ANU Research Publications

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Tropical Medicine and International Health

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Journal article

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10.1046/j.1365-3156.2003.01175.x

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