Update: Surveillance for West Nile Virus in overwintering mosquitoes - New York, 2000

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report

Volumn 49, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 178-179

  Cooper, J ^a   Miller, J ^a   Bennett, P ^a   White, D ^a   Smith, P ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOSQUITO; UNITED STATES; VIROLOGY; VIRUS INFECTION; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS;

ANIMALS; CULICIDAE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; NEW YORK; WEST NILE FEVER; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 0034628926     PISSN: 01492195     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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