Enhancing West Nile Virus Surveillance, United States

We provide a method for constructing a county-level West Nile virus risk map to serve as an early warning system for human cases. We also demonstrate that mosquito surveillance is a more accurate predictor of human risk than monitoring dead and infected wild birds.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Brownstein, John S., Holford, Theodore R., Fish, Durland
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2004
Materias:
Dispatch
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3323153/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15207069
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1006.030457
Descripción
Sumario:We provide a method for constructing a county-level West Nile virus risk map to serve as an early warning system for human cases. We also demonstrate that mosquito surveillance is a more accurate predictor of human risk than monitoring dead and infected wild birds.

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