Urban land use predicts west Nile virus exposure in songbirds

Ecological Applications

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1083-1092

  Bradley, Catherine A ^a   Gibbs, Samantha E J ^a,b   Altizer, Sonia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Antibody presence; Cardinalis cardinalis; Host pathogen interactions; Northern cardinal; Spatial epidemiology; Urbanization; Vector borne disease; West Nile virus (WNV); Wildlife disease; Zoonotic pathogens

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; DISEASE PREVALENCE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH POLICY; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; JUVENILE; LAND USE; METROPOLITAN AREA; PATHOGEN; SONGBIRD; URBAN AREA; URBANIZATION; VIRAL DISEASE; VIRUS;

ATLANTA; GEORGIA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; AVES; CARDINALIS CARDINALIS; PASSERI; WEST NILE VIRUS;

VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; SONGBIRD; UNITED STATES; URBANIZATION; VIROLOGY; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SONGBIRDS; UNITED STATES; URBANIZATION; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 55949086243     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/07-0822.1     Document Type: Article

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