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Rainfall and other meteorological factors as drivers of urban transmission of leptospirosis

2019-06-04

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<h4>ABSTRACT</h4> <h4>Background</h4> Leptospirosis is an important public health problem affecting vulnerable urban slum populations in developing country settings. However, the complex interaction of meteorological factors driving the temporal trends of leptospirosis remain incompletely understood. <h4>Methods and findings</h4> From 1996 to 2010, we investigated the association between the weekly incidence of...

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Literature Corpus work: 66022876-11c1-5498-a79f-9558e26ce8d6
DOI: 10.1101/658872

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