Serologic evidence of West Nile virus infection in horses, Yucatan State, Mexico

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 857-859

  Loroño Pino, Maria A ^a,b   Blitvich, Bradley J ^a   Farfán Ale, José A ^b   Puerto, Fernando I ^b   Blanco, José M ^b   Marlenee, Nicole L ^a   Rosado Paredes, Elsy P ^b   García Rejón, Julian E ^b   Gubler, Duane J ^c   Calisher, Charles H ^a   Beaty, Barry J ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE YUCATÁN   (Mexico)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HEMAGGLUTINATION INHIBITION; HORSE; HUMAN; MEXICO; NONHUMAN; SERODIAGNOSIS; TOPOGRAPHY; VIRUS CULTURE; VIRUS INFECTION; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS;

EID: 0038341181     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid0907.030167     Document Type: Article

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