Changes in the spatial distribution of COVID-19 incidence in Italy using GIS-based maps

Cecilia Acuti Martellucci; Ranjit Sah; Ali A Rabaan; Kuldeep Dhama; Cristina Casalone; Kovy Arteaga-Livias; Toyoaki Sawano; Akihiko Ozaki; Divya Bhandari; Asaka Higuchi; Yasuhiro Kotera; Zareena Fathah; Namrata Roy; Mohammed Ateeq Ur Rahman; Tetsuya Tanimoto; Alfonso J Rodriguez-Morales

doi:10.1186/s12941-020-00373-z

Changes in the spatial distribution of COVID-19 incidence in Italy using GIS-based maps

Ann Clin Microbiol Antimicrob. 2020 Jul 18;19(1):30. doi: 10.1186/s12941-020-00373-z.

Authors

Cecilia Acuti Martellucci^{1

2}, Ranjit Sah³, Ali A Rabaan⁴, Kuldeep Dhama⁵, Cristina Casalone⁶, Kovy Arteaga-Livias^{7

8}, Toyoaki Sawano^{9

10}, Akihiko Ozaki^{11

12}, Divya Bhandari¹², Asaka Higuchi¹², Yasuhiro Kotera¹³, Zareena Fathah¹⁴, Namrata Roy¹⁵, Mohammed Ateeq Ur Rahman¹⁶, Tetsuya Tanimoto¹², Alfonso J Rodriguez-Morales^{17

18

19}

Affiliations

¹ Section of Hygiene and Preventive Medicine, Department of Biomedical Sciences and Public Health, University of the Marche Region, Ancona, Italy.
² Department of Global Health Policy, School of International Health, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
³ Department of Microbiology, Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital, Institute of Medicine, Kathmandu, Nepal.
⁴ Molecular Diagnostic Laboratory, Johns Hopkins Aramco Healthcare, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.
⁵ Division of Pathology, ICAR-Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Izatnagar, Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, 243 122, India.
⁶ Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale del Piemonte, Liguria e Valle d'Aosta (IZSPLV), Turin, Italy.
⁷ Faculty of Medicine, Universidad Nacional Hermilio Valdizán, Huánuco, Peru.
⁸ Masters in Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Universidad Cientifica del Sur, Calle Cantuarias 398, Miraflores, 15074, Lima, Peru.
⁹ Department of Surgery, Sendai City Medical Center, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan.
¹⁰ Department of Public Health, Fukushima Medical University School of Medicine, Fukushima, Japan.
¹¹ Department of Breast Surgery, Jyoban Hospital of Tokiwa Foundation, Iwaki, Fukushima, Japan.
¹² Medical Governance Research Institute, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
¹³ University of Derby, Derby, UK.
¹⁴ Royal Holloway, University of London, London, UK.
¹⁵ SRM Medical College, Hospital and Research Center, Chennai, India.
¹⁶ Karnatak University, Dharwad, Karnataka, India.
¹⁷ Masters in Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Universidad Cientifica del Sur, Calle Cantuarias 398, Miraflores, 15074, Lima, Peru. arodriguezm@utp.edu.co.
¹⁸ Public Health and Infection Research Group, Faculty of Health Sciences, Universidad Tecnologica de Pereira, Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia. arodriguezm@utp.edu.co.
¹⁹ Grupo de Investigación Biomedicina, Faculty of Medicine, Fundación Universitaria Autónoma de las Américas, Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia. arodriguezm@utp.edu.co.

No abstract available

Keywords: COVID-19; Geographical information systems; Italy; Pandemic; SARS-CoV-2.

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Betacoronavirus / isolation & purification*
COVID-19
Coronavirus Infections* / epidemiology
Geographic Information Systems
Humans
Incidence
Italy / epidemiology
Pandemics*
Pneumonia, Viral* / epidemiology
SARS-CoV-2
Software