Time Series Analyses of Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease Integrating Weather Variables

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 10; no. 3; p. e0117296
• Main Authors: Song, Yuanbin, Wang, Fan, Wang, Bin, Tao, Shaohua, Zhang, Huiping, Liu, Sai, Ramirez, Oscar, Zeng, Qiyi
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 02.03.2015; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Adolescent; Child; Child, Preschool; China - epidemiology; Climate; Climate change; Climate models; Climatic analysis; Correlation; Correlation analysis; Coxsackievirus infections; Data processing; Disease control; Early warning systems; Enterovirus; Enterovirus A, Human - genetics; Enterovirus A, Human - isolation & purification; Epidemiology; Female; Foot and mouth disease; Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease - epidemiology; Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease - virology; Hand-foot-and-mouth disease; Health aspects; Hospitalization; Hospitals; Humans; Humidity; Impact prediction; Incidence; Independent variables; Infant; Infections; Laboratories; Male; Mathematical models; Models, Theoretical; Outbreaks; Pediatrics; Performance prediction; Precipitation (Meteorology); Prediction models; Rain; Rainfall; Repressors; Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction; RNA, Viral - analysis; Serotypes; Serotyping; Time series; Variables; Viral infections; Weather; China; United States > US

The past decade witnessed an increment in the incidence of hand foot mouth disease (HFMD) in the Pacific Asian region; specifically, in Guangzhou China. This emphasized the requirement of an early warning system designed to allow the medical community to better prepare for outbreaks and thus minimiz...