Explaining Usutu virus dynamics in Austria: Model development and calibration

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 85, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 166-186

  Rubel, Franz ^a   Brugger, Katharina ^a,b   Hantel, Michael ^b   Chvala Mannsberger, Sonja ^c   Bakonyi, Tamás ^d   Weissenböck, Herbert ^c   Nowotny, Norbert ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c VUW   (Austria)

^d SZENT ISTVÁN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Basic reproduction number; Climate forcing; Culex pipiens; Epidemic model; Infectious disease; Seasons; SIR model; Usutu virus; West Nile virus

Indexed keywords

ARBOVIRUS; ARTHROPODA; AVES; CULEX PIPIENS; FLAVIVIRUS; JAPANESE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS; JAPANESE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS GROUP; MAMMALIA; TURDUS MERULA; TURDUS MIGRATORIUS; USUTU VIRUS; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 44349147134     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2008.01.006     Document Type: Article

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