Infectious diseases, climate influences, and nonstationarity

Bernard Cazelles; Simon Hales

doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.0030328

Infectious diseases, climate influences, and nonstationarity

PLoS Med. 2006 Aug;3(8):e328. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030328.

Authors

Bernard Cazelles¹, Simon Hales

Affiliation

¹ Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, UMR 7625, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France. cazelles@biologie.ens.fr

Abstract

Cazelles and Hales discuss a new study that uses a range of mathematical tools to illustrate a clear relationship between climatic variables and the dynamics of cutaneous leishmaniasis.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Animals
Climate*
Communicable Diseases / epidemiology
Communicable Diseases / transmission*
Disease Transmission, Infectious / prevention & control
Humans
Leishmaniasis, Cutaneous / epidemiology
Leishmaniasis, Cutaneous / transmission
Public Health / methods
Public Health / standards
Time Factors