Risk factors for human infection with West Nile Virus in Connecticut: A multi-year analysis

International Journal of Health Geographics

Volumn 8, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Liu, Ann ^a   Lee, Vivian ^a   Galusha, Deron ^a   Slade, Martin D ^a   Diuk Wasser, Maria ^b   Andreadis, Theodore ^c   Scotch, Matthew ^a   Rabinowitz, Peter M ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFECTIOUS DISEASE; MODELING; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDICTION; RISK FACTOR;

CONNECTICUT; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; AVES; WEST NILE VIRUS;

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; CLIMATE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES; WEST NILE FEVER; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS;

AGRICULTURE; CLIMATE; CONNECTICUT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; WEST NILE FEVER; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 71949086022     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1476072X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-072X-8-67     Document Type: Article

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