West Nile virus revisited: Consequences for North American ecology

BioScience

Volumn 58, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 937-946

  LaDeau, Shannon L ^a   Marra, Peter P ^b   Kilpatrick, A Marm ^c,d   Calder, Catherine A ^e  

^a CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c The Consortium for Conservation Medicine   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Birds; Disease ecology; Hierarchical analyses; Mosquitoes; West Nile virus

Indexed keywords

AVES; HEXAPODA; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 55549125215     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1641/B581007     Document Type: Review

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