Spatial spread of an emerging infectious disease: Conjunctivitis in House Finches

Ecology

Volumn 87, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 3037-3046

  Hosseini, Parviez R ^a   Dhondt, André A ^b   Dobson, Andy P ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Fuller Evolutionary Biology Program   (United States)

Author keywords

Aves; Carpodacus mexicanus; Conjunctivitis; Disease; Geographic constraints; House Finch; Mycoplasma gallisepticum; Seasonality; Spread of infection

Indexed keywords

AVIAN INFLUENZA; DISEASE SPREAD; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; SEASONALITY; SONGBIRD;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BIRD DISEASE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; CONJUNCTIVITIS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FINCH; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOPLASMA GALLISEPTICUM; OBSERVER VARIATION; POPULATION MIGRATION; PREVALENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; BIRD DISEASES; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; CONJUNCTIVITIS, BACTERIAL; FINCHES; LOGISTIC MODELS; MYCOPLASMA GALLISEPTICUM; MYCOPLASMA INFECTIONS; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREVALENCE;

AVES; CARPODACUS MEXICANUS; MAMMALIA; MYCOPLASMA GALLISEPTICUM; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 33845705467     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2006)87[3037:SSOAEI]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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