Detection of West Nile virus in oral and cloacal swabs collected from bird carcasses

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 741-742

  Komar, Nicholas ^a,d   Lanciotti, Robert ^a   Bowen, Richard ^b   Langevin, Stanley ^a   Bunning, Michel ^a,c  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^c USAF   (United States)

^d NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BIRD; BRAIN TISSUE; CARCASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; MOUTH MUCOSA; NONHUMAN; TISSUE CULTURE; VIRUS DETECTION; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS;

EID: 0036310654     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid0807.020157     Document Type: Article

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