Detection of seroconversion to West Nile virus, Usutu virus and Sindbis virus in UK sentinel chickens

Virology Journal

Volumn 3, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Buckley, Alan ^a   Dawson, Alistair ^a   Gould, Ernest A ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODY; VIRUS ANTIGEN; VIRUS RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; NONHUMAN; SEROCONVERSION; SERUM; SINDBIS VIRUS; USUTU FLAVIVIRUS; VIRUS; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS;

ALPHAVIRUS INFECTIONS; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; BIRD DISEASES; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CHICKENS; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUSES, JAPANESE; FLAVIVIRUS INFECTIONS; GREAT BRITAIN; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SINDBIS VIRUS; WEST NILE VIRUS;

AVES; GALLUS GALLUS; SINDBIS VIRUS; USUTU VIRUS; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 33748756502     PISSN: 1743422X     EISSN: 1743422X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1743-422X-3-71     Document Type: Article

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