Remotely-sensed vegetation indices identify mosquito clusters of West Nile virus vectors in an urban landscape in the northeastern United States

Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 197-206

  Brown, Heidi ^a   Duik Wasser, Maria ^a   Andreadis, Theodore ^b   Fish, Durland ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Mosquito(es); Statistical Analysis; Vector borne; West Nile

Indexed keywords

VIRUS VECTOR;

ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE CONTROL; EMBRYO; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HABITAT; MALE; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES; VEGETATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS;

ANIMALS; CITIES; CONNECTICUT; CULICIDAE; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; INSECT CONTROL; INSECT VECTORS; PLANTS; WEST NILE VIRUS;

WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 43049096084     PISSN: 15303667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/vbz.2007.0154     Document Type: Article

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