Vector-host interactions governing epidemiology of West Nile virus in southern California

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 83, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1269-1282

  Molaei, Goudarz ^a   Cummings, Robert F ^b   Su, Tianyun ^c   Armstrong, Philip M ^a   Williams, Greg A ^d   Cheng, Min Lee ^c   Webb, James P ^e   Andreadis, Theodore G ^a  

^a Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station ^*  (United States)

^b Orange County Vector Control District   (United States)

^c West Valley Mosquito and Vector Control District   (United States)

^d Northwest Mosquito and Vector Control District   (United States)

^e NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ARTICLE; CARCASS; CELL CULTURE; CULEX; CULEX ERYTHROTHORAX; CULEX QUINQUEFASCIATUS; CULEX STIGMATOSOMA; CULEX TARSALIS; DOVE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FATALITY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FINCH; FLAVIVIRUS INFECTION; FOWL; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; MALE; MAMMAL; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPARROW; UNITED STATES; VERTEBRATE; VIRUS CELL INTERACTION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WEST NILE FEVER; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; BIRDS; CALIFORNIA; CULEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; MAMMALS; WEST NILE FEVER; WEST NILE VIRUS;

ARBOVIRUS; AVES; CARPODACUS MEXICANUS; CULEX ERYTHROTHORAX; CULEX PEUS; CULEX PIPIENS QUINQUEFASCIATUS; CULEX TARSALIS; MAMMALIA; PASSERIFORMES; VERTEBRATA; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 78649723411     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2010.10-0392     Document Type: Article

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