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Volume 8, Number 9, September 2002

Research

Impact of El Niño/Southern Oscillation on Visceral Leishmaniasis, Brazil

Carlos Roberto Franke,* Mario Ziller,† Christoph Staubach,† and Mojib Latif‡
*Federal University of Bahia, Bahia, Brazil; †Federal Research Centre for Virus Diseases of Animals, Wusterhausen, Germany; and ‡Max-Planck-Institut für Meteorologie, Hamburg, Germany

 
 
Figure 1. The Niño-3 index and the incidence of VL in the State of Bahia, Brazil, on a yearly basis....
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  Figure 1. The Niño-3 index and the incidence of visceral leishmaniasis (VL) in the State of Bahia, Brazil, on a yearly basis. The broken line is the normalized mean annual Nino-3 index, 1980–1998. The solid line shows the annual number of cases of VL per 10,000 inhabitants during 1985–1999.
 

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