El Nino southern oscillation, weather patterns, and bacillary dysentery in the Yangtze River Basin, China.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Increasingly intense weather anomalies associated with interannual climate variability patterns, like El Niño-southern oscillation (ENSO), could exacerbate the occurrence and transmission of infectious diseases. However, research in China remains limited in understanding the impacts and intermediate weather changes of ENSO on bacillary dysentery (BD). This study aimed to reveal the relationship between ENSO, weather conditions, and the incidence of BD, and to identify the potential meteorological pathways moderated by ENSO in the ENSO-BD connections.

Methods

BD disease data and meteorological data, as well as ENSO index, from 2005 to 2020 were obtained for 95 cities in the Yangtze River Basin. We first established the associations between ENSO events and BD, ENSO

SUBMITTER: Li C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11552299 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature