caa a22 4500 467882320 CHVBK 20180406152723.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e20061201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10393-006-0061-5 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10393-006-0061-5 Cholera Threat to Humans in Ghana Is Influenced by Both Global and Regional Climatic Variability [Elektronische Daten] [Guillaume Constantin de Magny, Bernard Cazelles, Jean-François Guégan] Cholera, an acute diarrheal illness, is caused by infection of the intestine with the bacterium Vibrio cholerae after ingestion of contaminated water or food. The disease had disappeared from most of the developed countries in the last 50 years, but cholera epidemics remain a major public health problem in many developing countries, most often localized in tropical areas. Cholera is an infectious disease for which a relationship between disease temporal patterns and climate has been demonstrated, but only in an endemic context and for local areas of Asia and South America. Until now, similar studies have not been done in an epidemic context, on the African continent, although the largest number of cholera cases has been reported for those countries by the World Health Organization. The wavelet method was used in order to explore periodicity in (i) a long-time monthly cholera incidence in Ghana, West Africa, (ii) proxy environmental variables, and (iii) climatic indices time series, from 1975 to 1995. Cross-analysis were done to explore links between these time series, i.e., between cholera and climate. Results showed strong statistical association (coherency) from the end of the 1980s, between cholera outbreak resurgences in Ghana and the climatic/environmental parameters under scrutiny. Further examination of the existence of common spatial and temporal patterns in infectious diseases on the continent of Africa will permit development of more effective treatment of disease. Ecohealth Journal Consortium, 2006 cholera nationallicence climate nationallicence Africa nationallicence communicable disease nationallicence statistical nationallicence disease outbreaks nationallicence Constantin de Magny Guillaume GEMI, UMR CNRS/IRD 2724, Centre IRD de Montpellier, Equipe "Evolution des Systèmes Symbiotiques”, 911 avenue Agropolis, BP 64501, 34394, Montpellier cedex 05, France aut Cazelles Bernard CNRS-UMR 7625, Ecole Normale Supérieure, 46 rue d'Ulm, 75230, Paris cedex 05, France aut Guégan Jean-François GEMI, UMR CNRS/IRD 2724, Centre IRD de Montpellier, Equipe "Evolution des Systèmes Symbiotiques”, 911 avenue Agropolis, BP 64501, 34394, Montpellier cedex 05, France aut EcoHealth Springer-Verlag 3/4(2006-12-01), 223-231 1612-9202 3:4<223 2006 3 10393 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10393-006-0061-5 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10393-006-0061-5 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Constantin de Magny Guillaume GEMI, UMR CNRS/IRD 2724, Centre IRD de Montpellier, Equipe "Evolution des Systèmes Symbiotiques”, 911 avenue Agropolis, BP 64501, 34394, Montpellier cedex 05, France aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Cazelles Bernard CNRS-UMR 7625, Ecole Normale Supérieure, 46 rue d'Ulm, 75230, Paris cedex 05, France aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Guégan Jean-François GEMI, UMR CNRS/IRD 2724, Centre IRD de Montpellier, Equipe "Evolution des Systèmes Symbiotiques”, 911 avenue Agropolis, BP 64501, 34394, Montpellier cedex 05, France aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- EcoHealth Springer-Verlag 3/4(2006-12-01), 223-231 1612-9202 3:4<223 2006 3 10393 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer