A twelve-month study of West Nile virus antibodies in a resident and a migrant species of kestrels in Israel

Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 15-22

  Banet Noach, Caroline ^a   Gantz, Adi Y ^b   Lublin, Avishai ^a   Malkinson, Mertyn ^a  

^a KIMRON VETERINARY INSTITUTE   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bird migration; Israel; Kestrels; Serosurvey; West Nile virus

Indexed keywords

NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODY; VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISPERSION; ECOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; GEOGRAPHY; ISRAEL; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; POPULATION MIGRATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEROLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPRING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VIRUS NEUTRALIZATION; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; BIRD DISEASES; BIRDS; ISRAEL; LINEAR MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; NEUTRALIZATION TESTS; SEASONS; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; WEST NILE FEVER; WEST NILE VIRUS;

AVES; FALCO TINNUNCULUS; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 2942514881     PISSN: 15303667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/153036604773082951     Document Type: Article

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