ArticleInternational journal of biometeorology2021
Effects of meteorological factors on human leptospirosis in Colombia.
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- Spatiotemporal patterns and climate influences on leptospirosis in Sri Lanka from 2009 to 2024.BMC infectious diseases · 2026Article
- Malaria, Dengue Fever, and Leptospirosis in the Urabá Antioqueño Region, Colombia: Etiological and Molecular Characterization among Patients with Acute Undifferentiated Febrile Illness.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2025Article
- Serologically Confirmed Human Leptospirosis in Colombia, 2015-2020.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2024Article
- Risk of human leptospirosis in Colombia: spatiotemporal analysis and related hydroclimatic factors.Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene · 2024Article
- Climate-driven models of leptospirosis dynamics in tropical islands from three oceanic basins.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2024Article
- Climate and human health: a review of publication trends in the International Journal of Biometeorology.International journal of biometeorology · 2023Review
- Determining the spatial distribution of environmental and socio-economic suitability for human leptospirosis in the face of limited epidemiological data.Infectious diseases of poverty · 2022Article
- Assessing rodents as carriers of pathogenic Leptospira species in the U.S. Virgin Islands and their risk to animal and public health.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Climatic Variability and Human Leptospirosis Cases in Cartagena, Colombia: A 10-Year Ecological Study.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2021Article
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Abstract
Leptospirosis is a disease usually acquired by humans through water contaminated with the urine of rodents that comes into direct contact with the cutaneous lesions, eyes, or mucous membranes. The disease has an important environmental component associated with climatic conditions and natural disasters, such as floods. We analyzed the relationship between rainfall and temperature and the incidence of leptospirosis in the top 30 municipalities with the highest numbers of cases of the disease in the period of 2007 to 2016. It was an ecological study of the time series of cases of leptospirosis, rainfall, and temperature with lags of 0, 1, 2, 3, and 4 weeks. A multilevel negative binomial regression model was implemented to evaluate the relationship between leptospirosis and both meteorological factors. In the 30 evaluated municipalities during the study period, a total of 5136 cases of leptospirosis were reported. According to the implemented statistical model, there was a positive association between the incidence of leptospirosis and rainfall with a lag of 1 week and a negative association with temperature with a lag of 4 weeks. Our results show the importance of short-term lags in rainfall and temperature for the occurrence of new cases of leptospirosis in Colombia.
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