Animal viral diseases and global change: Bluetongue and West Nile fever as paradigms

Frontiers in Genetics

Volumn 3, Issue JUN, 2012, Pages

  Jiménez Clavero, Miguel A ^a  

^a Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bluetongue; Climate change; Emerging diseases; Global change; West nile virus

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; AVES; BOVIDAE; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 84876049070     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16648021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2012.00105     Document Type: Review

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