| the relationship between rainfall and human leptospirosis in florianópolis, brazil, 1991-1996. | the relationship between serologically confirmed cases of leptospirosis and the amount of rainfall in greater florianôpolis, in southern brazil, was studied retrospectively for the period 1991 to 1996. maximum daily and total monthly rainfall for present and previous months were statistically significant predictors of the number of cases of leptospirosis in poisson regression models. however, daily maximum rainfall data showed a much better model fit than total monthly rainfall. for each millime ... | 2000 | 10934496 |