Transmission dynamics of the ongoing chikungunya outbreak in Central Italy: From coastal areas to the metropolitan city of Rome, summer 2017

Eurosurveillance

Volumn 22, Issue 44, 2017, Pages 18-41

  Manica, Mattia ^a,b   Guzzetta, Giorgio ^c   Poletti, Piero ^c   Filipponi, Federico ^b   Solimini, Angelo ^b   Caputo, Beniamino ^b   della Torre, Alessandra ^b   Rosà, Roberto ^a   Merler, Stefano ^c  

^a RESEARCH AND INNOVATION CENTRE   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c FONDAZIONE BRUNO KESSLER   (Italy)

Author keywords

Catholicism; Libert ; Nobility; Religious orders; Republic; Schools; Secularism

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CATHOLICISM; COURT; DRAWING; EDUCATION; FEMALE; FRANCE; GOVERNMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION CENTER; LAW; MALE; MONK; NUN; RUNNING; RURAL POPULATION; SECULARISM; AEDES; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISPERSAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHIKUNGUNYA; CHIKUNGUNYA VIRUS; EPIDEMIC; INSECT VECTOR; ITALY; MOSQUITO VECTOR; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RISK FACTOR; SEASON; TRANSMISSION; VIROLOGY;

AEDES; ANIMAL DISTRIBUTION; ANIMALS; CHIKUNGUNYA FEVER; CHIKUNGUNYA VIRUS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; ITALY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOSQUITO VECTORS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RISK FACTORS; SEASONS;

EID: 85035071660     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2017.22.44.17-00685     Document Type: Article

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