West Nile virus transmission in resident birds, Dominican Republic

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1299-1302

  Komar, Oliver ^a   Robbins, Mark B ^a   Klenk, Kaci ^b   Blitvich, Bradley J ^c   Marlenee, Nicole L ^c   Burkhalter, Kristen L ^b   Gubler, Duane J ^b   Gonzálvez, Guillermo ^d   Peña, Carlos J ^d   Peterson, A Townsend ^a   Komar, Nicholas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

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

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

^d Centro Nacional de Control de Enfermedades Tropicales   (Dominican Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODY; VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BIRD; BLOOD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOMINICAN REPUBLIC; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; MIGRATION; NONHUMAN; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS PLAQUE; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS;

EID: 0141532125     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid0910.030222     Document Type: Article

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