West Nile virus survey of birds and mosquitoes in the Dominican Republic

Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 120-126

  Komar, Oliver ^a,e   Robbins, Mark B ^a   Contreras, Gavino Guzmán ^b   Benz, Brett W ^a   Klenk, Kaci ^c,f   Blitvich, Bradley J ^d   Marlenee, Nicole L ^d   Burkhalter, Kristen L ^c   Beckett, Susan ^c   Gonzálvez, Guillermo ^b   Peña, Carlos J ^b   Peterson, A Townsend ^a   Komar, Nicholas ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

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

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

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

^e SalvaNATURA   (El Salvador)

^f NATIONAL WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Birds; Caribbean basin; Dominican Republic; Epidemiology; Flavivirus; Haiti; West Indies; West Nile virus

Indexed keywords

NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIRD DISEASE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOMINICAN REPUBLIC; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SERODIAGNOSIS; SEROPREVALENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS INFECTION; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; ANTIGENS, VIRAL; BIRD DISEASES; BIRDS; CULICIDAE; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; DOMINICAN REPUBLIC; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FLAVIVIRUS; FLAVIVIRUS INFECTIONS; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SONGBIRDS; STRIGIFORMES; WEST NILE FEVER; WEST NILE VIRUS;

AVES; CUCULIFORMES; FLAVIVIRUS; FLAVIVIRUS SP.; PASSERIFORMES; STRIGIFORMES; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 23844497337     PISSN: 15303667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/vbz.2005.5.120     Document Type: Article

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