Host selection of potential West Nile virus vectors in Puerto Barrios, Guatemala, 2007

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 108-115

  Kading, Rebekah C ^a   Reiche, Ana Silvia Gonzalez ^b   Morales Betoulle, Maria Eugenia ^c   Komar, Nicholas ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c US Naval Medical Research Unit No 3 Egypt   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULEX; CULEX NIGRIPALPUS; CULEX QUINQUEFASCIATUS; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; FEEDING; GUATEMALA; HOST SELECTION; MEAL; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; QUISCALUS MEXICANUS; RESERVOIR; RURAL AREA; SEASONAL VARIATION; TURDUS GRAYI; URBAN AREA; VIRUS CELL INTERACTION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WEST NILE FEVER; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; CULEX; GUATEMALA; INSECT VECTORS; WEST NILE VIRUS;

ANIMALIA; AVES; GALLUS GALLUS; QUISCALUS MEXICANUS; TURDUS GRAYI; VERTEBRATA; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 84872339649     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2012.12-0223     Document Type: Article

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