Geographical and climatic contributions to melioidosis hotspot formation in Southern Taiwan

• Kuang-Yueh Chen,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Physics, National Kaohsiung Normal University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

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• Kuang-Ying Chen,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliations Department of Biomedical Sciences, National Chung Cheng University, Chiayi, Taiwan, College of Medicine, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Hsin-Ping Ho,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, National Kaohsiung Normal University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

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• Hsi-Hsun Lin,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Supervision

  Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases, E-Da Dachang Hospital, I-Shou University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Institute of Clinical Medicine, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Bing-Mu Hsu,

  Roles Conceptualization, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, National Chung Cheng University, Chiayi, Taiwan

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• Yao-Shen Chen ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: dwhsu@mail.nknu.edu.tw (DWH), cyren@mail.nknu.edu.tw (CYR), yschen@vghks.gov.tw (YSC)

  Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

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• Duen-Wei Hsu ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: dwhsu@mail.nknu.edu.tw (DWH), cyren@mail.nknu.edu.tw (CYR), yschen@vghks.gov.tw (YSC)

  Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, National Kaohsiung Normal University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5762-7806

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• Chung-Yuan Ren

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: dwhsu@mail.nknu.edu.tw (DWH), cyren@mail.nknu.edu.tw (CYR), yschen@vghks.gov.tw (YSC)

  Affiliation Department of Physics, National Kaohsiung Normal University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

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