The effect of vaccination coverage and climate on Japanese encephalitis in Sarawak Malaysia

• Main Authors: Impoinvil, Daniel E, Ooi, Mong How, Diggle, Peter J, Caminade, Cyril, Cardosa, Mary Jane, Morse, Andrew P, Baylis, Matthew, Solomon, Tom
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: PLOS 2013
• Subjects: Q Science (General); R Medicine (General)
• Online Access: http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/6320/1/Daniel%20E..pdf; http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/6320/; http://journals.plos.org/plosntds/article?id=10.1371/journal.pntd.0002334
• Institution: Universiti Malaysia Sarawak

Background: Japanese encephalitis (JE) is the leading cause of viral encephalitis across Asia with approximately 70,000 cases a year and 10,000 to 15,000 deaths. Because JE incidence varies widely over time, partly due to inter-annual climate variability effects on mosquito vector abundance, it beco...