Developing Models of Disease Transmission: Insights from Ecological Studies of Insects and Their Baculoviruses

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Elderd, Bret D ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PESTICIDE;

ARTICLE; BACULOVIRUS; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECOLOGY; EXPRESSION VECTOR; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HOST RESISTANCE; LEPIDOPTERA; LYME DISEASE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; POPULATION CYCLE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS NUCLEOCAPSID; VIRUS REPLICATION;

ANIMALS; BACULOVIRIDAE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

HEXAPODA;

EID: 84879515314     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1003372     Document Type: Article

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