West Nile Virus range expansion into British Columbia

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1251-1258

  Roth, David ^a,b   Henry, Bonnie ^a,b   Mak, Sunny ^a   Fraser, Mieke ^a   Taylor, Marsha ^a   Li, Min ^a   Cooper, Ken ^a   Furnell, Allen ^a   Wong, Quantine ^a   Morshed, Muhammad ^a,b  

^a BRITISH COLUMBIA CENTRE FOR DISEASE CONTROL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANADA; CULEX TARSALIS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FLAVIVIRUS INFECTION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HORSE; HUMAN; MOSQUITO; NIGHT; NONHUMAN; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEASONAL VARIATION; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS NEUTRALIZATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS; WESTERN EQUINE ENCEPHALITIS;

ANIMALS; BRITISH COLUMBIA; CLIMATE; CULEX; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; WEST NILE FEVER; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 77956032475     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1608.100483     Document Type: Article

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