Antibodies to West Nile virus in feral swine from Florida, Georgia, and Texas, USA

Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 261-265

  Gibbs, Samantha E J ^a   Marlenee, Nicole L ^b   Romines, Janean ^c   Kavanaugh, Darrell ^c   Corn, Joseph L ^a   Stallknecht, David E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

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

^c UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

Author keywords

Epitope blocking ELISA; Feral pig; Flavivirus; Plaque reductionn neutralization test (PRINT); Sus scrofa; West Nile virus(WNV)

Indexed keywords

VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERODIAGNOSIS; SEROPREVALENCE; SWINE; UNITED STATES; VIRUS STRAIN; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; FEMALE; FLORIDA; GEORGIA; MALE; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SUS SCROFA; SWINE DISEASES; TEXAS; WEST NILE FEVER; WEST NILE VIRUS;

FLAVIVIRUS; MAMMALIA; SUS SCROFA; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 33751244796     PISSN: 15303667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/vbz.2006.6.261     Document Type: Article

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