Rift Valley Fever: An Emerging Mosquito-Borne Disease∗

Annual Review of Entomology

Volumn 61, Issue , 2016, Pages 395-415

  Linthicum, Kenneth J ^a   Britch, Seth C ^a   Anyamba, Assaf ^b  

^a CENTER FOR MEDICAL   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Aedes; Culex; Disease forecasting; Environmental and climate linkages; Hemorrhagic disease; Zoonosis

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ANIMAL; ARBOVIRUS; ARBOVIRUS INFECTIONS; EPIDEMIC; MIDDLE EAST; MOSQUITO; PHYSIOLOGY; RIFT VALLEY FEVER; RIFT VALLEY FEVER VIRUS; TRANSMISSION; VETERINARY; VIROLOGY;

AFRICA; ANIMALS; ARBOVIRUS INFECTIONS; ARBOVIRUSES; CULICIDAE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; MIDDLE EAST; RIFT VALLEY FEVER; RIFT VALLEY FEVER VIRUS;

EID: 84961825300     PISSN: 00664170     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-ento-010715-023819     Document Type: Review

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