West Nile virus epidemics in North America are driven by shifts in mosquito feeding behavior

PLoS Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 606-610

  Kilpatrick, A Marm ^a   Kramer, Laura D ^b   Jones, Matthew J ^b   Marra, Peter P ^c,d   Daszak, Peter ^a  

^a The Consortium for Conservation Medicine   (United States)

^b WADSWORTH CENTER   (United States)

^c SMITHSONIAN ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS VECTOR; VIRUS DNA;

ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULEX PIPIENS; EPIDEMIC; FALLING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); HOST; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; INFECTION PREVENTION; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; PATHOGENESIS; POPULATION DISPERSAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION MIGRATION; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUMMER; UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS; ANIMAL; FOOD CHAIN; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME; URBAN POPULATION; VIROLOGY; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALIA; AVES; CULEX PIPIENS; TURDUS MIGRATORIUS; WEST NILE VIRUS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIRDS; CULICIDAE; DNA, VIRAL; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD CHAIN; HUMANS; NORTH AMERICA; TIME FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION; WEST NILE FEVER; WEST NILE VIRUS; ZOONOSES;

EID: 33646261635     PISSN: 15457885     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040082     Document Type: Article

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