Associations between dengue and combinations of weather factors in a city in the Brazilian Amazon Asociación entre el dengue y combinaciones de factores climáticos en una ciudad de la Amazonia brasileña

• Main Authors: Maria Goreti Rosa-Freitas, Kathleen V. Schreiber, Pantelis Tsouris, Ellem Tatiani de Souza Weimann, José Francisco Luitgards-Moura
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Spanish; Portuguese
• Published: Pan American Health Organization 2006
• Subjects: Dengue; brotes de enfermedades; Aedes; clima; tiempo; modelos biológicos; predicción; Brasil; disease outbreaks; climate; weather; models; biological; forecasting; Brazil; Medicine; R; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270; Arctic; Boa
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/fe7c3b6a857342ecb6511abf1131b01c

OBJECTIVES: Dengue has become the most important endemic disease in Brazil. The Amazonian state of Roraima has one of the highest incidence rates of dengue in the country. The objective of this study was to determine whether significant temporal relationships exist between the number of reported den...