Emergence and prevalence of human vector-borne diseases in sink vector populations

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Rascalou, Guilhem ^a   Pontier, Dominique ^b   Menu, Frédéric ^b   Gourbière, Sébastien ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE PERPIGNAN   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS; CHAGAS DISEASE; DENGUE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; IMMIGRATION; JAPANESE ENCEPHALITIS; LONGEVITY; MALARIA; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PREVALENCE; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; VIRULENCE; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS;

ANIMALS; CHAGAS DISEASE; DENGUE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DISEASE VECTORS; ENCEPHALITIS, JAPANESE; ENVIRONMENT; HUMANS; LEISHMANIASIS, VISCERAL; MALARIA; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PEST CONTROL; PREVALENCE; PROTOZOAN INFECTIONS; TRYPANOSOMIASIS, AFRICAN; VIRUS DISEASES;

JAPANESE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS;

EID: 84862085543     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0036858     Document Type: Review

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