Moeen Hamid Bukhari, Muhammad Yousaf Shad, Uyen-Sa D T Nguyen, Jesús A Treviño C, Woojin Jung, Waheed U Bajwa, Ana Lucía Gallego-Hernández, Renee Robinson, Nadia Sarai Corral-Frías, Gabriel L Hamer, Penghua Wang, Esther Annan, Chaelin K Ra, David Keellings, Ubydul Haque
BACKGROUND: The objective of this study was to evaluate the spatial and temporal patterns of disease prevalence clusters of dengue (DENV), chikungunya (CHIKV) and Zika (ZIKV) virus and how socio-economic and climatic variables simultaneously influence the risk and rate of occurrence of infection in Mexico. METHODS: To determine the spatiotemporal clustering and the effect of climatic and socio-economic covariates on the rate of occurrence of disease and risk in Mexico, we applied correlation methods, seasonal and trend decomposition using locally estimated scatterplot smoothing, hotspot analysis and conditional autoregressive Bayesian models...
September 8, 2023: Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene