Antibodies to arthropod-borne encephalitis viruses in small mammals from southern Florida

Journal of Wildlife Diseases

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 431-436

  Day, Jonathan F ^a   Stark, Lillian M ^b   Zhang, Jin Tong ^a,d   Ramsey, Angela M ^a,e   Scott, Thomas W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b Florida Dept Hlth R   (United States)

^c Bldg 142   (United States)

^d BEIJING INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY AND EPIDEMIOLOGY   (China)

^e NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arenavirus; Eastern equine encephalitis; Mosquito borne arboviruses; Serosurvey; Small mammals; St. Louis encephalitis

Indexed keywords

ALPHAVIRUS; ANIMALIA; ARBOVIRUS; ARENAVIRUS; ARTHROPODA; EASTERN EQUINE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS; EQUIDAE; MAMMALIA; WESTERN EQUINE ENCEPHALOMYELITIS VIRUS;

VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLOOD; EASTERN EQUINE ENCEPHALOMYELITIS VIRUS; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; EPIDEMIC ENCEPHALITIS; HEMAGGLUTINATION INHIBITION TEST; IMMUNOLOGY; MAMMAL; OPOSSUM; PEROMYSCUS; PREVALENCE; RODENT DISEASE; SCIURIDAE; SERODIAGNOSIS; SIGMODONTINAE; ST LOUIS FLAVIVIRUS; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS, EASTERN EQUINE; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS, ST. LOUIS; ENCEPHALITIS, ST. LOUIS; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS, EQUINE; FLORIDA; HEMAGGLUTINATION INHIBITION TESTS; MAMMALS; NEUTRALIZATION TESTS; OPOSSUMS; PEROMYSCUS; PREVALENCE; RODENT DISEASES; SCIURIDAE; SIGMODONTINAE;

EID: 0030181117     PISSN: 00903558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7589/0090-3558-32.3.431     Document Type: Article

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