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West Nile Virus Epidemics in North America Are Driven by Shifts in Mosquito Feeding Behavior

West Nile virus (WNV) has caused repeated large-scale human epidemics in North America since it was first detected in 1999 and is now the dominant vector-borne disease in this continent. Understanding the factors that determine the intensity of the spillover of this zoonotic pathogen from birds to h...

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Autores principales: Kilpatrick, A. Marm, Kramer, Laura D, Jones, Matthew J, Marra, Peter P, Daszak, Peter
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2006
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1382011/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16494532
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0040082