Ecological Niche Modeling and Land Cover Risk Areas for Rift Valley Fever Vector, Culex tritaeniorhynchus Giles in Jazan, Saudi Arabia

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Sallam, Mohamed F ^a   Al Ahmed, Azzam M ^a   Abdel Dayem, Mahmoud S ^a   Abdullah, Mohamed A R ^b  

^a KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b JAZAN UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAIN; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ARTICLE; BREEDING; CULEX; CULEX TRITAENIORHYNCUS; DISEASE CARRIER; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HABITAT; INFECTION RISK; LAND USE; LARVA; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PREDICTION; RIFT VALLEY FEVER BUNYAVIRUS; SAUDI ARABIA; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; ANIMAL; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; RIFT VALLEY FEVER; RIFT VALLEY FEVER VIRUS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEASON; STATISTICAL MODEL; TEMPERATURE; TRANSMISSION; VIROLOGY;

AEDIMORPHUS; CULEX TRITAENIORHYNCHUS; RIFT VALLEY FEVER VIRUS;

ANIMALS; CULEX; DISEASE VECTORS; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; HUMANS; HUMIDITY; LARVA; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RIFT VALLEY FEVER; RIFT VALLEY FEVER VIRUS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAUDI ARABIA; SEASONS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84878795929     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0065786     Document Type: Article

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