Visceral leishmaniasis in northwest China from 2004 to 2018: a spatio-temporal analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Although visceral leishmaniasis (VL), a disease caused by parasites, is controlled in most provinces in China, it is still a serious public health problem and remains fundamentally uncontrolled in some northwest provinces and autonomous regions. The objective of this study is to explore the spatial and temporal characteristics of VL in Sichuan Province, Gansu Province and Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in China from 2004 to 2018 and to identify the risk areas for VL transmission.

Methods

Spatiotemporal models were applied to explore the spatio-temporal distribution characteristics of VL and the association between VL and meteorological factors in western China from 2004 to 2018. Geographic information of patients from the National Diseases Reporting Information

SUBMITTER: Zheng C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7713028 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature