Avian GIS models signal human risk for West Nile virus in Mississippi

International Journal of Health Geographics

Volumn 5, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Cooke III, William H ^a   Grala, Katarzyna ^a   Wallis, Robert C ^b  

^a MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MICHAEL BAKER JR INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRD DISEASE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DENSITY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; LANDSCAPE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RURAL AREA; SEASONAL VARIATION; UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA; VALIDATION STUDY; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; VIRUS INFECTION; WATER ANALYSIS; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS; ANIMAL; BIRD; ENVIRONMENT; EPIDEMIC; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PATHOGENICITY; RISK FACTOR; THEORETICAL MODEL; WEST NILE FEVER;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENVIRONMENT; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HUMANS; MISSISSIPPI; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RISK FACTORS; WEST NILE FEVER; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 33750479029     PISSN: 1476072X     EISSN: 1476072X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-072X-5-36     Document Type: Article

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