Arbovirus infection increases with group size

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 268, Issue 1478, 2001, Pages 1833-1840

  Brown, C R ^a   Komar, N ^a   Quick, S B ^a   Sethi, R A ^a   Panella, N A ^a   Brown, M B ^a   Pfeffer, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TULSA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alphavirus; Buggy Creek virus; Coloniality; Disease transmission; Oeciacus vicarius; Petrochelidon pyrrhonota

Indexed keywords

DISEASE VECTOR; GROUP SIZE; VIRAL DISEASE;

ALPHA VIRUS; ANIMAL CELL; ARBOVIRUS; ARTICLE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECOLOGY; NONHUMAN; POPULATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLE; VERTEBRATE; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

NEBRASKA; UNITED STATES;

ALPHAVIRUS; ANIMALIA; ARBOVIRUS; ARTHROPODA; BUGGY CREEK VIRUS; CIMICIDAE; HIRUNDINIDAE; INVERTEBRATA; OECIACUS VICARIUS; PASSER DOMESTICUS; PETROCHELIDON PYRRHONOTA; RNA VIRUSES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0035823192     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2001.1749     Document Type: Article

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