Arbovirus surveillance in Rhode Island: Assessing potential ecologic and climatic correlates

Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 179-189

  Takeda, Tsutomu ^a   Whitehouse, Chris A ^a,c   Brewer, Michael ^a,d   Gettman, Alan D ^b   Mather, Thomas N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^b RHODE ISLAND DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT   (United States)

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

^d NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arbovirus activity; Climate; Mosquitoes; Precipitation; Rhode Island

Indexed keywords

ARBOVIRUS; AVES; COQUILLETTIDIA PERTURBANS; CORVUS BRACHYRHYNCHOS; CYANOCITTA; EQUIDAE; FLANDERS VIRUS; WEST NILE VIRUS;

ANIMAL; ARBOVIRUS; ARTICLE; CLIMATE; ECOLOGY; HEALTH SURVEY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOSQUITO; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TEMPERATURE; UNITED STATES; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; ARBOVIRUSES; CLIMATE; CULICIDAE; ECOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RHODE ISLAND; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0141973752     PISSN: 8756971X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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