West Nile virus in horses, Guatemala [5]

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1038-1039

  Morales Betoulle, Maria Eugenia ^a   Morales, Herber ^b   Blitvich, Bradley J ^c   Powers, Ann M ^d   Davis, E Ann ^e   Klein, Robert ^a   Cordón Rosales, Celia ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DEL VALLE DE GUATEMALA   (Guatemala)

^b Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock   (Guatemala)

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

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

^e US Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service   (Guatemala)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODY; VIRUS ANTIBODY; VIRUS ANTIGEN;

ANTIBODY TITER; BLOOD SAMPLING; CROSS REACTION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FLAVIVIRUS; GENE EXPRESSION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GUATEMALA; HORSE; LETTER; NONHUMAN; SERODIAGNOSIS; ST LOUIS FLAVIVIRUS; VACCINATION; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS; WILDLIFE;

EID: 33744923989     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1206.051615     Document Type: Letter

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