Spatiotemporal characteristics and primary influencing factors of typical dengue fever epidemics in China.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Dengue fever (DF) is a common mosquito-borne viral infectious disease in the world, and increasingly severe DF epidemics in China have seriously affected people's health in recent years. Thus, investigating spatiotemporal patterns and potential influencing factors of DF epidemics in typical regions is critical to consolidate effective prevention and control measures for these regional epidemics.

Methods

A generalized additive model (GAM) was used to identify potential contributing factors that influence spatiotemporal epidemic patterns in typical DF epidemic regions of China (e.g., the Pearl River Delta [PRD] and the Border of Yunnan and Myanmar [BYM]). In terms of influencing factors, environmental factors including the normalized difference vegetation index (NDV

SUBMITTER: Zheng L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6440137 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature