Bird community composition linked to human West Nile virus cases along the Colorado front range

EcoHealth

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 439-447

  McKenzie, Valerie J ^a   Goulet, Nicolas E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

American Robin; amplification fraction; bird communities; Colorado; disease risk; West Nile virus

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BIRD; BIRD DISEASE; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROW; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; FACTUAL DATABASE; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MOSQUITO; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK ASSESSMENT; SONGBIRD; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; VIROLOGY; WEST NILE FEVER; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS;

ALTITUDE; ANIMALS; BIRD DISEASES; BIRDS; COLORADO; CROWS; CULICIDAE; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; LINEAR MODELS; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK ASSESSMENT; SONGBIRDS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; WEST NILE FEVER; WEST NILE VIRUS;

AVES; CORVUS BRACHYRHYNCHOS; TURDUS MIGRATORIUS; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 80052624521     PISSN: 16129202     EISSN: 16129210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10393-010-0360-8     Document Type: Article

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