Volume 28, Number 11—November 2022
CME ACTIVITY - Synopsis
Multispecies Outbreak of Nocardia Infections in Heart Transplant Recipients and Association with Climate Conditions, Australia
Table 4
Characteristic | Preoutbreak, Jun 2015–Dec 2017 | Outbreak, Jan 2018–Dec 2019 |
Postoutbreak Jan 2020–Mar 2021 |
p value |
---|---|---|---|---|
Nocardia cases/mo | 0.16 | 0.46 | 0.07 | |
Average monthly precipitation, mm/mo | 60.4 | 40.0 | 103.2 | <0.01 |
Average monthly temperature °C | 17.0 | 17.8 | 17.8 | 0.79 |
Average monthly dryness* | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.5 | <0.01 |
Average monthly windspeed, m/s | 1.0 | 0.9 | 1.0 | 0.62 |
Average monthly erodibility† | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.26 |
*Ratio of evaporation to potential evaporation, such that 0.0 is perfectly dry and 1.0 is perfectly wet. †Calculated by the formula (1 – dryness) × windspeed.
1These authors contributed equally to this article.
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