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- Title
Effect of El Niño and ambient temperature on hospital admissions for diarrhoeal diseases in Peruvian children.
- Authors
Checkley, W; Epstein, L D; Gilman, R H; Figueroa, D; Cama, R I; Patz, J A; Black, R E
- Abstract
To investigate whether the El Niño phenomenon and ambient temperature had an effect on the epidemiology of childhood diarrhoea, we analysed data on daily number of admissions of children with diarrhoea to the Oral Rehydration Unit of the Instituto de Salud del Niño in Lima, Peru, between January, 1993, and November, 1998.
- Publication
Lancet (London, England), 2000, Vol 355, Issue 9202, p442
- ISSN
0140-6736
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1016/s0140-6736(00)82010-3