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Effects of seasonal changes in temperature and humidity on incidence of necrotizing soft tissue infections in Halifax, Canada, 2001-2015

Zahir T. Fadel, Emily Burke, Nadim Joukhadar, Osama A. Samargandi and Michael Bezuhly
Saudi Medical Journal May 2019, 40 (5) 469-474; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2019.5.24096
Zahir T. Fadel
From the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (Fadel, Burke Joukhadar, Samargandi, Bezuhly), Dalhousie University; from the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (Bezuhly), Izaak Walton Killam Health Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada; and from the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (Samargandi, Fadel), King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Emily Burke
From the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (Fadel, Burke Joukhadar, Samargandi, Bezuhly), Dalhousie University; from the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (Bezuhly), Izaak Walton Killam Health Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada; and from the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (Samargandi, Fadel), King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Nadim Joukhadar
From the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (Fadel, Burke Joukhadar, Samargandi, Bezuhly), Dalhousie University; from the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (Bezuhly), Izaak Walton Killam Health Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada; and from the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (Samargandi, Fadel), King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Osama A. Samargandi
From the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (Fadel, Burke Joukhadar, Samargandi, Bezuhly), Dalhousie University; from the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (Bezuhly), Izaak Walton Killam Health Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada; and from the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (Samargandi, Fadel), King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Michael Bezuhly
From the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (Fadel, Burke Joukhadar, Samargandi, Bezuhly), Dalhousie University; from the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (Bezuhly), Izaak Walton Killam Health Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada; and from the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (Samargandi, Fadel), King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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vol. 40 no. 5 469-474
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2019.5.24096
PubMed 
31056624

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Saudi Medical Journal
Online ISSN 
1658-3175
History 
  • Received December 4, 2018
  • Accepted March 12, 2019
  • Published online May 1, 2019.

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Copyright: © Saudi Medical Journal This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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  1. Zahir T. Fadel, MSc, MD,
  2. Emily Burke, MD,
  3. Nadim Joukhadar, MD,
  4. Osama A. Samargandi, MD, MHSc and
  5. Michael Bezuhly, MSc, MD⇑
  1. From the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (Fadel, Burke Joukhadar, Samargandi, Bezuhly), Dalhousie University; from the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (Bezuhly), Izaak Walton Killam Health Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada; and from the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (Samargandi, Fadel), King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
  1. Address correspondence and reprint request to: Dr. Michael Bezuhly, Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Dalhousie University, Izaak Walton Killam Health Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. E-mail: mbezuhly{at}dal.ca ORCID ID: orcid.org/0000-0002-7356-5147
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Zahir T. Fadel, Emily Burke, Nadim Joukhadar, Osama A. Samargandi, Michael Bezuhly
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Zahir T. Fadel, Emily Burke, Nadim Joukhadar, Osama A. Samargandi, Michael Bezuhly
Saudi Medical Journal May 2019, 40 (5) 469-474; DOI: 10.15537/smj.2019.5.24096
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