Role of peridomestic birds in the transmission of St. Louis encephalitis virus in southern california

Journal of Wildlife Diseases

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 13-34

  Gruwell, J A ^c   Fogarty, C L ^a   Bennett, S G ^a   Challet, G L ^a   Vanderpool, K S ^b   Jozan, M ^a   Webb Jr , J P ^b  

^a Orange County Vector Control District   (United States)

^b Orange Co Harbors Beaches Parks   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Arbovirus surveillance; Epidemiology; House finch; House sparrow; Mosquitoes; Overwintering; Recrudescence; St. Louis encephalitis virus; Virus foci

Indexed keywords

ALPHAVIRUS; ARBOVIRUS; AVES; CARPODACUS MEXICANUS; COLUMBA LIVIA; COLUMBIA LIVIA; COLUMBIFORMES; EQUIDAE; FRINGILLIDAE; PASSER DOMESTICUS; PASSERIDAE; ST. LOUIS ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS; WESTERN EQUINE ENCEPHALOMYELITIS VIRUS;

VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BIRD DISEASE; BLOOD; CULEX; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIC ENCEPHALITIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEMAGGLUTINATION INHIBITION TEST; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; LONGEVITY; PIGEONS AND DOVES; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASON; SONGBIRD; ST LOUIS FLAVIVIRUS; UNITED STATES; VIROLOGY; WESTERN EQUINE ENCEPHALOMYELITIS ALPHAVIRUS;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; BIRD DISEASES; CALIFORNIA; COLUMBIDAE; CULEX; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS, ST. LOUIS; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS, WESTERN EQUINE; ENCEPHALITIS, ST. LOUIS; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS, EQUINE; HEMAGGLUTINATION INHIBITION TESTS; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; LONGEVITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASONS; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SONGBIRDS;

EID: 0033627758     PISSN: 00903558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7589/0090-3558-36.1.13     Document Type: Article

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