Modeling the spatial distribution of mosquito vectors West Nile virus in Connecticut, USA

Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 283-295

  Diuk Wasser, Maria A ^a   Brown, Heidi D ^a   Andreadis, Theodore G ^b   Fish, Durland ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Culex; Light traps; Spatial modeling; West Nile virus

Indexed keywords

SURFACE WATER;

AEDES; ANIMAL TRAPPING; ARTICLE; CULEX; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GRASSLAND; HABITAT SELECTION; INFECTION CONTROL; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEASONAL VARIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UNITED STATES; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; VIRUS VECTOR; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS;

AEDES; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; CONNECTICUT; CULEX; CULICIDAE; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; LOGISTIC MODELS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEASONS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; SPACE-TIME CLUSTERING; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; WEST NILE FEVER; WEST NILE VIRUS; ZOONOSES;

AEDES VEXANS; CULEX PIPIENS; CULISETA MELANURA; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 33751243608     PISSN: 15303667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/vbz.2006.6.283     Document Type: Article

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