São Paulo urban heat islands have a higher incidence of dengue than other urban areas
Urban heat islands are characterized by high land surface temperature, low humidity, and poor vegetation, and considered to favor the transmission of the mosquito-borne dengue fever that is transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito. We analyzed the recorded dengue incidence in Sao Paulo city, Brazil...
Main Authors: | Ricardo Vieira Araujo, Marcos Roberto Albertini, André Luis Costa-da-Silva, Lincoln Suesdek, Nathália Cristina Soares Franceschi, Nancy Marçal Bastos, Gizelda Katz, Vivian Ailt Cardoso, Bronislawa Ciotek Castro, Margareth Lara Capurro, Vera Lúcia Anacleto Cardoso Allegro |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2015-03-01
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Series: | Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases |
Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1413867014002074 |
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