Spatiotemporal patterns of Aedes aegypti populations in Cairns, Australia: Assessing drivers of dengue transmission

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 839-849

  Duncombe, Jennifer ^a   Clements, Archie ^a   Davis, Joe ^b   Hu, Wenbiao ^a   Weinstein, Philip ^c   Ritchie, Scott ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b TROPICAL PUBLIC HEALTH UNIT   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^d JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aedes aegypti; Cairns; Dengue; Spatial; Temporal

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

DENGUE FEVER; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DISEASE VECTOR; ENTOMOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; MOSQUITO; NUMERICAL MODEL; RAINFALL; RESOURCE USE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

AEDES AEGYPTI; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; DENGUE; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FEMALE; HUMIDITY; MALE; METEOROLOGICAL PHENOMENA; NONHUMAN;

AEDES; ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; DENGUE; ENTOMOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOSQUITO CONTROL; OVIPOSITION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RAIN; TEMPERATURE;

AUSTRALIA; CAIRNS; QUEENSLAND;

AEDES AEGYPTI;

EID: 84879222795     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: 13653156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/tmi.12115     Document Type: Article

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