Simulation of climate-change scenarios to explain Usutu-virus dynamics in Austria

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 24-31

  Brugger, Katharina ^a,b   Rubel, Franz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Arbovirus; Basic reproduction number; Climate change; Epidemic model; Global warming; Infectious disease; Seasons; SIR model; Temperature forcing; Usutu virus; West Nile virus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIRD DISEASE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EPIDEMIC; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; JAPANESE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS; SONGBIRD; VIROLOGY; VIRUS INFECTION;

ANIMALS; AUSTRIA; BIRD DISEASES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUSES, JAPANESE; FLAVIVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PASSERIFORMES;

ARBOVIRUS; AVES; FLAVIVIRUS; TURDUS MERULA; USUTU VIRUS; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 56949102216     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2008.06.023     Document Type: Article

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