Unpredictable and difficult to control - The adolescence of West Nile virus

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 367, Issue 14, 2012, Pages 1281-1284

  Petersen, Lyle R ^a   Fischer, Marc ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INSECT REPELLENT; ORGANOPHOSPHATE INSECTICIDE; PYRETHROID; WEST NILE VACCINE;

DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; ENCEPHALITIS; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; EPIDEMIC; FLACCID PARALYSIS; FLAVIVIRUS INFECTION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION PREVENTION; MENINGITIS; MORTALITY; MOSQUITO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; ST LOUIS FLAVIVIRUS; UNITED STATES; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS; ZOONOSIS;

EID: 84867174742     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp1210537     Document Type: Article

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