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January 1, 2011International Journal of Health GeographicsOpen Access

Hand, foot and mouth disease: spatiotemporal transmission and climate

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Population

HFMD cases aggregated into 1456 counties in the eastern part of China over an 11-month period.

Design

Other

Follow-up

11 months

Authors

JWJinfeng WangJiaozuo UniversityYGYansha GuoTianjin University of Technology and EducationGCGeorge ChristakosZhejiang Ocean University

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Implication

May inform targeted HFMD surveillance incorporating precipitation clusters; leaves open prospective validation and causal inference.

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Population
HFMD cases aggregated into 1456 counties in the eastern part of China over an 11-month period (May 1, 2008 to March 27, 2009).
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Outcome
Spatiotemporal transmission patterns of HFMD and their association with climate indicators (precipitation)

HFMD propagates in a composite space-time domain and its occurrence is geographically clustered and closely linked to monthly precipitation types in China.

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Wang et al. (2011) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a7ccf3021c5894b35c8a16ahttps://doi.org/10.1186/1476-072x-10-25
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