Table 4. The association between ambient B. pseudomallei and environmental parameters of lag 0, lag 1, lag 2, 2-days sum, 3-days sum, and 4-days sum during whole period (June to December), typhoon season (June to September), and typhoon month (August).

Ambient B. pseudomallei (copies/m3)
		Whole period (June–December) (N = 191)		Typhoon season (June to September) (N = 109)		Typhoon month (August) (N = 31)
		r	p-value	r	p-value	r	p-value
Rainfall	lag 0	0.184	0.011*	−0.041	0.671	−0.050	0.788
	lag 1	0.140	0.053	−0.074	0.446	−0.140	0.453
	lag 2	0.176	0.015*	−0.044	0.653	−0.052	0.779
	lag 3	0.220	0.002*	0.012	0.899	0.255	0.166
	2-days sum	0.181	0.012*	−0.065	0.500	−0.115	0.537
	3-days sum	0.218	0.002*	−0.038	0.694	−0.135	0.468
	4-days sum	0.235	0.001*	−0.028	0.773	−0.039	0.834
Wind Speed	lag 0	−0.019	0.794	−0.155	0.108	−0.320	0.079
	lag 1	0.004	0.952	−0.133	0.168	−0.032	0.863
	lag 2	0.102	0.161	0.014	0.888	−0.066	0.722
	lag 3	0.137	0.059	0.103	0.285	0.266	0.148
	2-days sum	−0.014	0.848	−0.176	0.067	−0.307	0.093
	3-days sum	0.034	0.642	−0.139	0.150	−0.319	0.080
	4-days sum	0.086	0.237	−0.074	0.442	−0.197	0.287
UV	lag 0	0.246	0.001*	0.021	0.832	0.045	0.809
	lag 1	0.215	0.003*	−0.027	0.777	0.126	0.500
	lag 2	0.202	0.005*	−0.035	0.721	0.159	0.392
	lag 3	0.298	<0.001*	0.139	0.150	0.020	0.913
	2-days sum	0.263	<0.001*	−0.008	0.936	0.090	0.632
	3-days sum	0.282	<0.001*	−0.017	0.864	0.189	0.310
	4-days sum	0.320	<0.001*	0.050	0.608	0.150	0.420

* p -value<0.05; lag 0, lag 1, lag 2, and lag 3: the effects of 0-, 1-, 2-, 3-day lags before the date ambient B. pseudomallei measurement.