The risk of west nile virus infection is associated with combined sewer overflow streams in urban Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 118, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1382-1388

  Vazquez Prokopec, Gonzalo M ^a   Vanden Eng, Jodi L ^b   Kelly, Rosmarie ^c   Mead, Daniel G ^d   Kolhe, Priti ^e   Howgate, James ^e   Kitron, Uriel ^a,f   Burkot, Thomas R ^b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^c Georgia Division of Public Health   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^e Fulton County Department of Health and Wellness   (United States)

^f NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Arbovirus; Culex quinquefasciatus; Risk factors; Spatial clustering; Spatial epidemiology; Urban pollution

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW; CROW; CULEX QUINQUEFASCIATUS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HOUSEHOLD; HOUSING; HUMAN; INCOME; INFECTION RATE; INFECTION RISK; LAND USE; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIVER BASIN; SEWER; STREAM (RIVER); TREE; UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA; VIRUS INFECTION; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS;

GEORGIA; HUMANS; SEWAGE; URBAN POPULATION; WEST NILE FEVER;

ARBOVIRUS; AVES; CORVIDA; CORVUS BRACHYRHYNCHOS; CULEX PIPIENS QUINQUEFASCIATUS; CYANOCITTA; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 77957909944     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1001939     Document Type: Article

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