Rift Valley fever potential, Arabian Peninsula [2]

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 518-520

  Anyamba, Assaf ^a   Chretien, Jean Paul ^b   Formenty, Pierre B H ^c   Small, Jennifer ^a   Tucker, Compton J ^a   Malone, Joseph L ^b   El Bushra, Hassan ^c   Martin, Vincent ^d   Linthicum, Kenneth J ^e,f  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b Department of Defense Global Emerging Infections Surveillance and Response System ^*  (United States)

^c WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^d FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS   (Italy)

^e U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^f CENTER FOR MEDICAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

AEDES; AEDES VEXAN ARABIENSIS; ANIMAL DISEASE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EPIDEMIC; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; LETTER; MASS IMMUNIZATION; NONHUMAN; RIFT VALLEY FEVER BUNYAVIRUS; SLAUGHTERHOUSE; VECTOR CONTROL; VIRUS CARRIER; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

EID: 33644519962     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1203.050973     Document Type: Letter

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