Figure 1.
Geographic location of A) Guangdong Province in China and B) the four parts of Guangdong Province including the capital city: Guangzhou.
Table 1.
Demographic characteristics of reported HFMD cases in Guangdong Province, China, 2008–2011
Figure 2.
Monthly reported cases of HFMD in Guangdong Province, China, 2008–2011.
Figure 3.
Monthly distribution of EV71, CoxA16 and other enterovirus in Guangdong Province, China, 2008–2011.
Figure 4.
Spatial-temporal clusters of HFMD in Guangdong Province, China, in A) 2008, B) 2009, C) 2010 and D) 2011, setting 50% as the maximum cluster size.
Dark green represents the most likely clusters. Annotations with the cluster time, RR value and cities contain the most likely clusters are presented by year.
Table 2.
The most likely clusters of HFMD in Guangdong Province, China, 2008–2011 (setting 50% as the maximum cluster size).
Figure 5.
Spatial-temporal clusters of HFMD in Guangdong Province, China, in A) 2008, B) 2009, C) 2010 and D) 2011, setting 20% as the maximum cluster size.
Dark green represents the most likely clusters and light green represents the secondary clusters. Annotations with the cluster time, RR value and cities contain the most likely clusters are presented by year.
Table 3.
The most likely clusters of HFMD in Guangdong Province, China, 2008–2011 (setting 20% as the maximum cluster size).
Table 4.
Spatial panel model using meteorological and demographic factors with moving average of 0- and 1-month lags on HFMD incidence in Guangdong Province, China, 2008–2011.