Association of weather variables with pathogens contributing to conjunctivitis worldwide.
Daisy YanN Venkatesh PrajnaPrajna LalithaWiwan SansanayudhVannarut SatitpitakulWipada LaovirojjanakulMeenu ChaudharyMamadou BountogoAli SieBoubacar CoulibalyAbdou AmzaBeido NassirouIbrahim AlmouHuy TranYen TranEdmund TsuiTania OnclinxRuti SellaLee GorenEsmeralda McCleanVivien ThamCindi ChenKevin RuderLina ZhongYuHeng LiuDanny YuThomas AbrahamElodie LebasBenjamin F ArnoldStephen D McLeodMichael S DeinerTravis C PorcoGerami D SeitzmanThomas M LietmanJessica ShanthaArmin HinterwirthThuy A DoanPublished in: Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (2024)
This study suggests that weather factors affect pathogens differently. Particularly, humidity and precipitation were predictors for pathogens contributing to conjunctivitis worldwide. Additional work is needed to clarify the effects of shifts in weather and environmental factors on ocular infectious diseases.