Identifying the environmental conditions favouring West Nile Virus outbreaks in Europe

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Marcantonio, Matteo ^a   Rizzoli, Annapaola ^a   Metz, Markus ^a   Rosa, Roberto ^a   Marini, Giovanni ^a   Chadwick, Elizabeth ^b   Neteler, Markus ^a  

^a RESEARCH AND INNOVATION CENTRE   (Italy)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLIMATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; EPIDEMIC; EUROPE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LAND USE; LANDSCAPE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY; PRECIPITATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; REMOTE SENSING; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEASONAL VARIATION; VEGETATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; VIRUS VIRULENCE; WEST NILE FEVER; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS; ENVIRONMENT; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PROCEDURES; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; WEST NILE VIRUS;

ANIMALIA; MOSQUITO-BORNE VIRUSES; WEST NILE VIRUS;

DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENVIRONMENT; EUROPE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; WEST NILE FEVER; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 84925860610     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0121158     Document Type: Article

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