West Nile virus: Strategies for predicting municipal-level infection

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1102, Issue , 2007, Pages 135-148

  Yiannakoulias, Nikolaos W ^a   Svenson, Lawrence W ^a,b,c,d  

^a Public Health Surveillance and Environmental Health   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^d Population Health Division   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cx. tarsalis; Geographic information systems (GIS); Seroprevalence; West Nile virus (WNV)

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; COST; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; RISK FACTOR; SEROLOGY; VIRUS INFECTION; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS; ANIMAL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; INFECTION CONTROL; METHODOLOGY; REVIEW; STATISTICS; VIROLOGY;

WEST NILE VIRUS;

ANIMALS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CULICIDAE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; NORTH AMERICA; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; STATISTICS; WEST NILE FEVER;

EID: 34250359880     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1408.010     Document Type: Conference Paper

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