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Sep 2026
Quantifying the temperature-related fraction of hand, foot, and mouth disease using distributed lag non-linear models: lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic period
The results indicate that the temperature mainly serves as a permissive behavioral factor promoting child-to-child contacts - rather than acting directly on the viral kinetics in HFMD, although temperature-related preparation according to the seasons is still significant.
Yi Ren, Lan Luo, Shui-Xing Luo et al.
· Frontiers in Public Health · 0 citations