title: Environmental predictors of human West Nile virus infections, Colorado.
abstract: To determine whether environmental surveillance of West Nile Virus-positive dead birds, mosquito pools, equines, and sentinel chickens helped predict human cases in metropolitan Denver, Colorado, during 2003, we analyzed human surveillance data and environmental data. Birds successfully predicted the highest proportion of human cases, followed by mosquito pools, and equines.
authors.affiliation: Tri-Counti Health Department, Greenwood Village, Colorado, USA. jennifer.patnaik@uchsc.edu
authors.forename: Jennifer L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Patnaik
authors.forename: Lara
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Juliusson
authors.forename: Richard L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Vogt
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001717:Birds; D002645:Chickens; D003120:Colorado / Q000453:epidemiology; D009033:Culicidae; D004197:Disease Reservoirs / Q000821:virology; D004777:Environment; D005843:Geography; D006736:Horses; D006801:Humans; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D018571:Sentinel Surveillance; D014901:West Nile Fever / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000821:virology; D014902:West Nile virus / Q000302:isolation & purification*