Which Viruses Like It Hot

General reviews

• Altizer, Sonia, Andrew Dobson, Parviez Hosseini, Peter Hudson, Mercedes Pascual, and Pejman Rohani. 2006. “Seasonality and the Dynamics of Infectious Diseases.” Ecology Letters 9(4):467–84.
• Grassly, Nicholas C., and Christophe Fraser. 2006. “Seasonal Infectious Disease Epidemiology.” Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 273(1600):2541–50.
• Haines, A., R. S. Kovats, D. Campbell-Lendrum, and C. Corvalan. 2006. “Climate Change and Human Health: Impacts, Vulnerability, and Mitigation.” The Lancet 367(9528):2101–9.
• Lofgren, Eric, N. H. Fefferman, Y. N. Naumov, J. Gorski, and E. N. Naumova. 2007. “Influenza Seasonality: Underlying Causes and Modeling Theories.” Journal of Virology 81(11):5429–36.

Data source: Scopus bibliographic database. The search was made by titles, abstracts and keywords of publications using the term seasonal changes in virus spread. The search resulted in approximately 4000 publications, the 2000 most cited ones were selected for analysis.
Search query:
TITLE-ABS-KEY ( season* W/2 chang* OR variat* OR forcing AND *virus* OR *infect* OR strain AND transmi* OR spread )