Environmental risk factors of West Nile virus infection of horses in the Senegal River basin

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 138, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1601-1609

  Chevalier, V ^a   Dupressoir, A ^b   Tran, A ^a   Diop, O M ^b   Gottland, C ^a   Diallo, M ^b   Etter, E ^a   Ndiaye, M ^b   Grosbois, V ^b   Dia, M ^b   Gaidet, N ^a   Sall, A A ^b   Soti, V ^a   Niang, M ^b  

^a UMR ASTRE   (France)

^b INSTITUT PASTEUR DE DAKAR   (Senegal)

Author keywords

Geographic information system; remote sensing; risk; Senegal; seroprevalence; West Nile virus

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; SEA WATER;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULEX; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FLOODING; HORSE; INFECTION RISK; NONHUMAN; RISK FACTOR; RIVER BASIN; SENEGAL; SEROPREVALENCE; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; VIRUS CARRIER; VIRUS NEUTRALIZATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WEST NILE FEVER;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; CULEX; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; INSECT VECTORS; RISK FACTORS; RIVERS; SENEGAL; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; WEST NILE FEVER; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 77957319664     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S095026881000035X     Document Type: Article

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