Ecological niche modeling of mosquito vectors of West Nile virus in St. John's County, Florida, USA

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Sallam, Mohamed F ^a,b,c   Xue, Rui De ^b   Pereira, Roberto M ^a   Koehler, Phillip G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b Anastasia Mosquito Control District   (United States)

^c AIN SHAMS UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Culex nigripalpus; Culex quinquefasciatus; Florida; Habitat suitability; West Nile virus

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

ARTICLE; BIRD; CHICKEN; CLIMATE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CULEX; CULEX NIGRIPALPUS; CULEX QUINQUEFASCIATUS; DISEASE CARRIER; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; EPIZOOTIOLOGY; FORAGING; HABITAT; LAND USE; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MOSQUITO; NESTLING; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDICTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES; URBANIZATION; VEGETATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WEST NILE VIRUS; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FLORIDA; INSECT VECTOR; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PHYSIOLOGY; POULTRY DISEASES; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; VETERINARY; VIROLOGY; WEST NILE FEVER;

ANIMALS; CHICKENS; CULEX; FLORIDA; INSECT VECTORS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POULTRY DISEASES; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; WEST NILE FEVER; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 84978394257     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13071-016-1646-7     Document Type: Article

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