A Hierarchical Network Approach for Modeling Rift Valley Fever Epidemics with Applications in North America

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Xue, Ling ^a   Cohnstaedt, Lee W ^b   Scott, H Morgan ^c   Scoglio, Caterina ^a  

^a Sunflower Networking Group   (United States)

^b USDAARS Center for Grain and Animal Health Research   (United States)

^c KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEDES; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULEX; EPIDEMIC; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HOST RANGE; HUMAN; INCUBATION TIME; INFECTION RISK; LIVESTOCK; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; POPULATION MODEL; RIFT VALLEY FEVER; RIFT VALLEY FEVER BUNYAVIRUS; STOCHASTIC MODEL; VIRUS CARRIER; VIRUS CELL INTERACTION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; EPIDEMICS; HUMANS; LIVESTOCK; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NORTH AMERICA; RIFT VALLEY FEVER; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84877105571     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0062049     Document Type: Article

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