Ecological niche of the 2003 West Nile virus epidemic in the northern Great Plains of the United States

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 12, 2008, Pages

  Wimberly, Michael C ^a   Hildreth, Michael B ^b   Boyte, Stephen P ^a   Lindquist, Erik ^a   Kightlinger, Lon ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA   (United States)

^b SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c South Dakota Department of Health   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CROPLAND; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; EPIDEMIC; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RISK; NONHUMAN; RISK ASSESSMENT; RURAL AREA; SEASONAL VARIATION; TREND STUDY; UNITED STATES; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; PATHOGENICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

CULEX TARSALIS; WEST NILE VIRUS;

DISEASE OUTBREAKS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HUMANS; MIDWESTERN UNITED STATES; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NORTHWESTERN UNITED STATES; WEST NILE FEVER; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 57549109223     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003744     Document Type: Article

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