Certainty, uncertainty, and the spatiality of disease: A West Nile Virus example

Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 523-531

  Koch, Tom ^a   Denike, Kenneth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPIDEMIOLOGY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VIRAL DISEASE;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; NILE; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; UGANDA;

WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 34347377646     PISSN: 14363240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00477-007-0144-z     Document Type: Review

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