Climate variability, animal reservoir and transmission of scrub typhus in Southern China.

• Main Authors: Yuehong Wei (Author), Yong Huang (Author), Xiaoning Li (Author), Yu Ma (Author), Xia Tao (Author), Xinwei Wu (Author), Zhicong Yang (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2017-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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OBJECTIVES:We aimed to evaluate the relationships between climate variability, animal reservoirs and scrub typhus incidence in Southern China. METHODS:We obtained data on scrub typhus cases in Guangzhou every month from 2006 to 2014 from the Chinese communicable disease network. Time-series Poisson...