Tropospheric winds from northeastern China carry the etiologic agent of Kawasaki disease from its source to Japan.

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Published in Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A on May 19, 2014

Authors

Xavier Rodó1, Roger Curcoll2, Marguerite Robinson2, Joan Ballester3, Jane C Burns4, Daniel R Cayan5, W Ian Lipkin6, Brent L Williams6, Mara Couto-Rodriguez6, Yosikazu Nakamura7, Ritei Uehara7, Hiroshi Tanimoto8, Josep-Anton Morguí2

Author Affiliations

1: Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats, 08010 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain;Unitat de Dinàmica i Impacte Climàtic (UDIC), Institut Català de Ciències del Clima, 08005 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain; xavier.rodo@ic3.cat.
2: Unitat de Dinàmica i Impacte Climàtic (UDIC), Institut Català de Ciències del Clima, 08005 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain;
3: Unitat de Dinàmica i Impacte Climàtic (UDIC), Institut Català de Ciències del Clima, 08005 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain;Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125;
4: Department of Pediatrics, Rady Children's Hospital-San Diego and University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093;
5: Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92037;US Geological Survey, La Jolla, CA 92037;
6: Center for Infection and Immunity, Mailman School of Public Health of Columbia University, New York, NY 10032;
7: Department of Public Health, Jichi Medical Hospital, Togichi 108-8639, Japan; and.
8: Center for Global Environmental Research, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba 305-8506, Japan.

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