Serological evidence of West Nile virus, Usutu virus and Sindbis virus infection of birds in the UK

Journal of General Virology

Volumn 84, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 2807-2817

  Buckley, Alan ^a   Dawson, Alistair ^b   Moss, Stephen R ^a   Hinsley, Shelley A ^b   Bellamy, Paul E ^b   Gould, Ernest A ^a  

^a NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODY; VIRUS RNA;

ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; BIRD DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLAVIVIRUS; GENETIC SIMILARITY; HEALTH HAZARD; INFECTION RISK; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERODIAGNOSIS; SINDBIS VIRUS; UNITED KINGDOM; USUTU FLAVIVIRUS; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS;

ALPHAVIRUS INFECTIONS; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; BASE SEQUENCE; BIRD DISEASES; BIRDS; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUSES, JAPANESE; ENCEPHALITIS, ARBOVIRUS; FLAVIVIRUS INFECTIONS; GREAT BRITAIN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEUTRALIZATION TESTS; PLAQUE ASSAY; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SINDBIS VIRUS; WEST NILE VIRUS;

ALPHAVIRUS; ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; AVES; CORVIDAE; EQUIDAE; FLAVIVIRUS; RNA VIRUSES; SINDBIS VIRUS; TURDUS MERULA; USUTU VIRUS; VERTEBRATA; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 0141730431     PISSN: 00221317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.19341-0     Document Type: Article

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