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Climate Drives the Meningitis Epidemics Onset in West Africa

BACKGROUND: Every year West African countries within the Sahelo-Sudanian band are afflicted with major meningococcal meningitis (MCM) disease outbreaks, which affect up to 200,000 people, mainly young children, in one of the world's poorest regions. The timing of the epidemic year, which starts...

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Autores principales: Sultan, Benjamin, Labadi, Karima, Guégan, Jean-François, Janicot, Serge
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2005
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC545199/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15696216
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0020006