The spatiotemporal distribution of Japanese Encephalitis cases in Yunnan Province, China, from 2007 to 2017

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 15; no. 4; p. e0231661
• Main Authors: Mao, Xianghua, Zhou, Hongning
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 14.04.2020; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Age; Biology and Life Sciences; Children; Computer programs; Control methods; Data collection; Disease hot spots; Encephalitis; Epidemics; Epidemiology; Females; Genotype & phenotype; Immunization; Infectious diseases; Low level; Medicine and Health Sciences; Mortality; Municipalities; Occupations; Parasitic diseases; People and Places; Software; Spatial distribution; Statistical analysis; Temporal distribution; Vaccines; Vector-borne diseases; China; Japan; Yunnan China

Japanese encephalitis (JE) is a vector-borne disease with a high prevalence in Yunnan Province, China. However, there has been a lack of a JE epidemic systematic analysis, which is urgently needed to guide control and prevention efforts. This study explored and described the spatiotemporal distribut...