Seasonal synchrony in incidences of common infectious diagnoses in early childhood among neighbouring regions
Author(s) -
TienYu Owen Yang,
WanTing Huang,
MeiHuei Chen,
PauChung Chen
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
international journal of infectious diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.278
H-Index - 89
eISSN - 1878-3511
pISSN - 1201-9712
DOI - 10.1016/j.ijid.2014.06.015
Subject(s) - respiratory infection , seasonality , confidence interval , disease , medicine , infectious disease (medical specialty) , demography , respiratory system , veterinary medicine , biology , ecology , sociology
Information on seasonal synchrony of influenza activity between neighbouring regions has been found useful for planning infection control measures. Seasonal synchrony of other infectious diseases is less known. We describe the seasonality and seasonal synchrony of three common childhood infectious diagnoses among three regions in Taiwan.
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