Notifiable Respiratory Infectious Diseases in China: A Spatial-Temporal Epidemiology Analysis.

ABSTRACT: Nowadays, tuberculosis, scarlet fever, measles, influenza, and mumps are five major notifiable respiratory infectious diseases (RIDs) in China. The objective of this study was to describe, visualize, and compare the spatial-temporal distributions of these five RIDs from 2006 to 2016. In addition to descriptive epidemiology analysis, seasonality and spatial autocorrelation analysis were also applied to explore the epidemiologic trends and spatial changing patterns of the five RIDs, respectively. The results indicated that the incidence of tuberculosis, measles, and mumps presented a downtrend trend, while those of scarlet fever and influenza was in a strong uptrend across the research period. The incidences of the five diseases all peaked in spring. There were significant spatial disparitie

SUBMITTER: Mao Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7177391 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature