Relationship between rainfall and temperature: observations on the cases of visceral leishmaniasis in São Luis Island, State of Maranhão, Brazil

Relationship between rainfall and temperature: observations on the cases of visceral leishmaniasis in São Luis Island, State of Maranhão, Brazil

INTRODUCTION: Visceral leishmaniasis is a serious public health problem that requires global control strategies, especially with respect to factors that may intervene in reducing the incidence of endemicity. In this work, rainfall density and temperature were correlated with the incidence of human c...

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Main Authors: Graça Maria de Castro Viana, Maria do Desterro Soares Brandão Nascimento, Érica Milena Fernandes Rabelo, João Arnaud Diniz Neto, José Roberto Binda Júnior, Carolina de Souza Galvão, Alessandro Carvalho dos Santos, Onildo Martins Santos Júnior, Rodrigo Artur Souza de Oliveira, Rafael Silva Guimarães
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical (SBMT) 2011-12-01
Series:Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical
Subjects:
Leishmaniose visceral
Ecoepidemiologia
Temperatura
Densidade pluviométrica
Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0037-86822011000600013&lng=en&tlng=en

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