Increase in West Nile neuroinvasive disease after Hurricane Katrina

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 804-807

  Caillouët, Kevin A ^a   Michaels, Sarah R ^a   Xiong, Xu ^a   Foppa, Ivo ^a   Wesson, Dawn M ^a  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ENCEPHALITIS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; HURRICANE; INCIDENCE; MENINGITIS; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; MOSQUITO; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; UNITED STATES; WEST NILE NEUROINVASIVE DISEASE;

EID: 45249124717     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1405.071066     Document Type: Article

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