The impact of community organization on vector-borne pathogens

American Naturalist

Volumn 181, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-11

  Roche, Benjamin ^a,b,c   Rohani, Pejman ^b,d   Dobson, Andy P ^e   Guégan, Jean François ^c,f  

^a Sorbonne Universités   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^e PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f Interdisciplinary Center on Biodiversity Climate Change and Infectious Diseases   (France)

Author keywords

Community ecology; Community epidemiology; Emerging vector borne diseases; Mathematical modeling

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DISEASE VECTOR; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARASITIC DISEASE; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOTA; BIRD; BIRD DISEASE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HUMAN; MOSQUITO; PHYSIOLOGY; UNITED STATES; VIROLOGY; WEST NILE FEVER; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; BIOTA; BIRD DISEASES; BIRDS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; CULICIDAE; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; UNITED STATES; WEST NILE FEVER; WEST NILE VIRUS; ZOONOSES;

UNITED STATES;

WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 84871322088     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/668591     Document Type: Article

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