West Nile virus ecology in a tropical ecosystem in Guatemala

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 116-126

  Morales Betoulle, Maria E ^a   Komar, Nicholas ^b   Panella, Nicholas A ^b   Alvarez, Danilo ^a   López, María R ^a   Betoulle, Jean Luc ^c   Sosa, Silvia M ^a   Müller, María L ^a   Kilpatrick, A Marm ^d   Lanciotti, Robert S ^b   Johnson, Barbara W ^b   Powers, Ann M ^b   Cordón Rosales, Celia ^a   Chaluleu, Cristina ^e   Contreras, Carmen L ^e   Kading, Rebekah C ^e   Edwards, Eric ^e   Godsey, Marvin S ^e   González, Ana S ^e   Huyvaert, Kathryn P ^e   Keene, Kimberly M ^e   Ledermann, Jeremy P ^e   Martínez, Luis ^e   Molina, Bernarda ^e   De Lourdes Monzón, María ^e   Stovall, Janae L ^e   Santiago, Mónica ^e   Savage, Harry M ^e   Young, Ginger ^e   more..

^a UNIVERSIDAD DEL VALLE DE GUATEMALA   (Guatemala)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^c Fundación Para el Ecodesarrollo y la Conservación FUNDAECO   (Guatemala)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e Ecology and Evolutionary Biology ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHICKEN; CULEX INFLICTUS; CULEX MOLLIS; CULEX NIGRIPALPUS; CULEX QUINQUEFASCIATUS; ECOSYSTEM; GUATEMALA; HIGH TEMPERATURE; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; POULTRY; QUISCALUS MEXICANUS; RURAL AREA; SEROCONVERSION; SEROPREVALENCE; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST; URBAN AREA; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; CULEX; ECOSYSTEM; GUATEMALA; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; TROPICAL CLIMATE; WEST NILE VIRUS;

AVES; CULEX NIGRIPALPUS; CULEX PIPIENS QUINQUEFASCIATUS; GALLUS GALLUS; QUISCALUS MEXICANUS; VERTEBRATA; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 84872349972     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2012.12-0276     Document Type: Article

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