Landscape, demographic and climatic associations with human West Nile virus occurrence regionally in 2012 in the United States of America

Geospatial Health

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 153-168

  DeGroote, John P ^a   Sugumaran, Ramanathan ^b   Ecker, Mark ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c University of Northern   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate; Culex; Geographical information systems; United States of America; West Nile virus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; CLIMATE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CULEX; DISEASE CARRIER; ENVIRONMENT; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRANSMISSION; UNITED STATES; VIROLOGY; WEST NILE FEVER;

ANIMALS; CLIMATE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CULEX; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; UNITED STATES; WEST NILE FEVER;

EID: 84911863869     PISSN: 18271987     EISSN: 19707096     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4081/gh.2014.13     Document Type: Article

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