Nature Communications (Aug 2020)
Exposure to air pollution and scarlet fever resurgence in China: a six-year surveillance study
- Yonghong Liu,
- Hui Ding,
- Shu-ting Chang,
- Ran Lu,
- Hui Zhong,
- Na Zhao,
- Tzu-Hsuan Lin,
- Yiming Bao,
- Liwei Yap,
- Weijia Xu,
- Minyi Wang,
- Yuan Li,
- Shuwen Qin,
- Yu Zhao,
- Xingyi Geng,
- Supen Wang,
- Enfu Chen,
- Zhi Yu,
- Ta-Chien Chan,
- Shelan Liu
Affiliations
- Yonghong Liu
- School of Intelligent Systems Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University
- Hui Ding
- School of Intelligent Systems Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University
- Shu-ting Chang
- Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences, Academia Sinica
- Ran Lu
- Division of Infectious Disease, Key Laboratory of Surveillance and Early-Warning on Infectious Disease, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention
- Hui Zhong
- School of Intelligent Systems Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University
- Na Zhao
- CAS Key Laboratory of Pathogenic Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Tzu-Hsuan Lin
- Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences, Academia Sinica
- Yiming Bao
- National Genomics Data Center, Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences & China National Center for Bioinformation
- Liwei Yap
- Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences, Academia Sinica
- Weijia Xu
- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Intelligent Transport System
- Minyi Wang
- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Intelligent Transport System
- Yuan Li
- Department of Infectious Diseases, Baoan District Centre for Disease Control and Prevention
- Shuwen Qin
- Department of Infectious Diseases, Zhejiang Provincial Centre for Disease Control and Prevention
- Yu Zhao
- Department of Infectious Diseases, Zhejiang Provincial Centre for Disease Control and Prevention
- Xingyi Geng
- Emergency Offices, Jinan Centre for Disease Control and Prevention
- Supen Wang
- College of Life Sciences, Anhui Normal University
- Enfu Chen
- Department of Infectious Diseases, Zhejiang Provincial Centre for Disease Control and Prevention
- Zhi Yu
- School of Intelligent Systems Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University
- Ta-Chien Chan
- Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences, Academia Sinica
- Shelan Liu
- Department of Infectious Diseases, Zhejiang Provincial Centre for Disease Control and Prevention
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17987-8
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 11,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 13
Abstract
The reason for a re-emergence of scarlet fever in China remains unclear. Here the authors show that the number of scarlet fever cases surged in 2011 peaking in 2018, this correlates with an increase in NO2 and O3 but does not necessarily imply causation.
