Soil Dust Aerosols and Wind as Predictors of Seasonal Meningitis Incidence in Niger

Background: Epidemics of meningococcal meningitis are concentrated in sub-Saharan Africa during the dry season, a period when the region is affected by the Harmattan, a dry and dusty northeasterly trade wind blowing from the Sahara into the Gulf of Guinea. Objectives: We examined the potential of cl...

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Autores principales: García-Pando, Carlos Pérez, Stanton, Michelle C., Diggle, Peter J., Trzaska, Sylwia, Miller, Ron L., Perlwitz, Jan P., Baldasano, José M., Cuevas, Emilio, Ceccato, Pietro, Yaka, Pascal, Thomson, Madeleine C.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: NLM-Export 2014
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4080544/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24633049
http://dx.doi.org/10.1289/ehp.1306640

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4080544/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24633049
http://dx.doi.org/10.1289/ehp.1306640

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