National and regional associations between human West Nile virus incidence and demographic, landscape, and land use conditions in the coterminous United States

Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 657-665

  DeGroote, John P ^a   Sugumaran, Ramanathan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Culex; Distribution; GIS; Landscape; West Nile virus

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CULEX; CULEX PIPIENS; CULEX QUINQUEFASCIATUS; CULEX RESTUANS; CULEX TARSALIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CARRIER; HOUSING; LAND USE; LANDSCAPE; NONHUMAN; POVERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES; WEST NILE FEVER;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; CULEX; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; ENVIRONMENT; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INSECT VECTORS; LOGISTIC MODELS; POPULATION DENSITY; RURAL POPULATION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION; WEST NILE FEVER; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 84865008886     PISSN: 15303667     EISSN: 15577759     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/vbz.2011.0786     Document Type: Article

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