Winter ecology of Buggy Creek virus (Togaviridae, Alphavirus) in the central great plains

Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 355-363

  Brown, Charles R ^a   Strickler, Stephanie A ^a,c   Moore, Amy T ^a   Knutie, Sarah A ^a   Padhi, Abinash ^a,d   Brown, Mary Bomberger ^a,e   Young, Ginger R ^b   O'Brien, Valerie A ^a   Foster, Jerome E ^a,f   Komar, Nicholas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TULSA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^d PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Trinidad and Tobago)

Author keywords

Arbovirus; Buggy Creek virus; Oeciacus vicarius; Overwintering; Petrochelidon pyrrhonota; Virus ecology

Indexed keywords

ALPHA VIRUS; ARTICLE; BUGGY CREEK VIRUS; CYTOPATHOGENIC EFFECT; ECOLOGY; ECTOPARASITE; HEMIPTERA; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPARROW; SUMMER; TOGAVIRUS; UNITED STATES; VIRUS DETECTION; WINTER;

ALPHAVIRUS; ANIMALS; BIRD DISEASES; ECOSYSTEM; HEMIPTERA; PREVALENCE; RNA, VIRAL; SEASONS; SWALLOWS; TIME FACTORS;

ALPHAVIRUS; ARBOVIRUS; AVES; BUGGY CREEK VIRUS; CIMICIDAE; HEMIPTERA; HIRUNDINIDAE; OECIACUS VICARIUS; PASSER DOMESTICUS; PASSERIDAE; PETROCHELIDON PYRRHONOTA; TOGAVIRIDAE;

EID: 77951975462     PISSN: 15303667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/vbz.2009.0031     Document Type: Article

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