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SUBMITTER: Kilpatrick AM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3755645 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kilpatrick A Marm AM Pape W John WJ
American journal of epidemiology 20130703 5
West Nile virus (WNV) has become established across the Americas with recent heightened activity causing significant human illness. Surveillance methods to predict the risk of human infection are urgently needed to initiate timely preventative measures and justify the expense of implementing costly or unpopular control measures, such as aerial spraying or curfews. We quantified the links between mosquito surveillance data and the spatiotemporal patterns of 3,827 human WNV cases reported over 5 y ...[more]