Seasonal Patterns of Infectious Diseases
Open Access
- 25 January 2005
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by Public Library of Science (PLoS) in PLoS Medicine
- Vol. 2 (1), e5
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0020005
Abstract
Why is that many infectious diseases, like cholera, malaria, and meningococcal meningitis, show seasonal patterns? And how can we accurately determine these patterns?Keywords
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