Screening for West Nile virus infections of susceptible animal species in Austria

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 131, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 1023-1027

  Weissenbock H ^a   Hubalek Z ^b   Halouzka, J ^b   Pichlmair, A ^a   Maderner, A ^a   Fragner, K ^a   Kolodziejek, J ^a   Loupal, G ^a   Kolbl S ^c   Nowotny, N ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

^b INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE BIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^c Fed Min Social Secty/Generations   (Austria)

^d UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEIC ACID; PARAFFIN; VIRUS ANTIBODY; VIRUS ANTIGEN; VIRUS RNA;

ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; BIRD; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DISEASE ACTIVITY; EASTERN EUROPE; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; FOWL; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN; HORSE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCREENING TEST; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TISSUE SECTION; TRAVEL; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS PATHOGENESIS; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS;

ANIMALS; AUSTRIA; BIRD DISEASES; BIRDS; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WEST NILE FEVER;

EID: 0142211147     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268803001031     Document Type: Article

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