Unforeseen costs of cutting mosquito surveillance budgets

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Vazquez Prokopec, Gonzalo M ^a   Chaves, Luis F ^a,b   Ritchie, Scott A ^c,d   Davis, Joe ^c   Kitron, Uriel ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL   (Costa Rica)

^c TROPICAL PUBLIC HEALTH UNIT   (Australia)

^d JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BUDGET; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST CONTROL; DENGUE VIRUS; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EPIDEMIC; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOSQUITO; PUBLIC HEALTH; URBAN AREA; VECTOR CONTROL; VIRUS INFECTION; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS; AUSTRALIA; DENGUE; ECONOMICS; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; THEORETICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; BUDGETS; CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION (U.S.); DENGUE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOSQUITO CONTROL; QUEENSLAND; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 78449236737     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0000858     Document Type: Article

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