Scrub typhus in mainland China, 2006-2012: the need for targeted public health interventions

Wen-Yi Zhang; Li-Ya Wang; Fan Ding; Wen-Biao Hu; Ricardo J Soares Magalhaes; Hai-Long Sun; Yun-Xi Liu; Qi-Yong Liu; Liu-Yu Huang; Archie C A Clements; Shen-Long Li; Cheng-Yi Li

doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0002493

Scrub typhus in mainland China, 2006-2012: the need for targeted public health interventions

PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2013 Dec 26;7(12):e2493. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0002493. eCollection 2013.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Disease Control and Prevention, Academy of Military Medical Science, Beijing, P.R. China.
² Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, P.R. China.
³ School of Population Health, Infectious Disease Epidemiology Unit, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
⁴ Chinese People's Liberation Army General Hospital, Beijing, P.R. China.

No abstract available

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Review

MeSH terms

China / epidemiology
Communicable Disease Control / methods*
Humans
Public Health Administration / methods
Scrub Typhus / epidemiology*
Spatio-Temporal Analysis
Topography, Medical

Grants and funding

This study was funded in part by the grants from National Basic Research Program of China (2012CB955500-955504) and National Natural Science Foundation of China (81102169), Special Grant for the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases (2012ZX1004801-002-007). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.