Effect of Environmental Temperature on the Susceptibility of Culex pipiens (Diptera: Culicidae) to Rift Valley Fever Virus

Journal of Medical Entomology

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 918-921

  Brubaker, Jeffrey F ^a   Turell, Michael J ^a  

^a UNITED STATES ARMY MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

Culex pipiens; Rift Valley fever virus; Temperature

Indexed keywords

ARBOVIRUS; ARTHROPOD BORNE VIRUS; ARTHROPODA; CULEX PIPIENS; CULICIDAE; DIPTERA; ORTHOBUNYAVIRUS; RIFT VALLEY FEVER VIRUS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CLIMATE; CULEX; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RIFT VALLEY FEVER BUNYAVIRUS; TEMPERATURE; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; CHILD; CLIMATE; CULEX; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; RIFT VALLEY FEVER; RIFT VALLEY FEVER VIRUS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0032200580     PISSN: 00222585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jmedent/35.6.918     Document Type: Article

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