Effects of local climate variability on transmission dynamics of cholera in Matlab, Bangladesh

Cholera is considered as a model for climate-related infectious diseases. In Bangladesh, cholera epidemics occur during summer and winter seasons, but it is not known how climate variability influences the seasonality of cholera. Therefore, the variability pattern of cholera events was studied in re...

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Published in:Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 2009-11, Vol.103 (11), p.1165-1170
Main Authors: Islam, M.S., Sharker, M.A.Y., Rheman, S., Hossain, S., Mahmud, Z.H., Uddin, A.M.K., Yunus, M., Osman, M.S., Ernst, R., Rector, I., Larson, C.P., Luby, S.P., Endtz, H.P., Cravioto, A.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Bacterial diseases
Bangladesh
Bangladesh - epidemiology
Biological and medical sciences
Cholera
Cholera - epidemiology
Cholera - microbiology
Cholera - transmission
Climate
Female
General aspects
Human bacterial diseases
Humans
Infectious diseases
Male
Medical sciences
Phytoplankton
Retrospective Studies
Risk Factors
Temperature
Time Factors
Transmission dynamics
Tropical bacterial diseases
Water Microbiology
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Summary:Cholera is considered as a model for climate-related infectious diseases. In Bangladesh, cholera epidemics occur during summer and winter seasons, but it is not known how climate variability influences the seasonality of cholera. Therefore, the variability pattern of cholera events was studied in relation to the variation in local climate variables in Matlab, Bangladesh. Classification and regression tree (CART) and principal component analysis (PCA) were used to study the dependency and variability pattern of monthly total cholera cases. An average temperature
ISSN:0035-9203
1878-3503
DOI:10.1016/j.trstmh.2009.04.016