Serologic evidence of West Nile virus infections in wild birds captured in Germany

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 358-364

  Linke, Sonja ^a   Niedrig, Matthias ^a   Kaiser, Andreas ^b   Ellerbrok, Heinz ^a   Müller, Kerstin ^c   Müller, Thomas ^d   Conraths, Franz Josef ^d   Mühle, Ralf Udo ^e   Schmidt, Daniel ^f   Koppen, Ulrich ^g   Bairlein, Franz ^h   Berthold, Peter ⁱ   Pauli, Georg ^a  

^a ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^d FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^f NABU Vogelschutzzentrum Mössingen   (Germany)

^g Naturschutz und Geologie Mecklenburg Vorpommern   (Germany)

^h INSTITUTE OF AVIAN RESEARCH VOGELWARTE HELGOLAND   (Germany)

ⁱ MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN Y; MATERNAL ANTIBODY; NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODY; VIRUS ANTIBODY; VIRUS RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; GERMANY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIRUS INFECTION; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; BIRD; BIRD DISEASE; BLOOD; CHEMISTRY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SERODIAGNOSIS; VIROLOGY;

AVES; CICONIA CICONIA; USUTU VIRUS; WEST NILE VIRUS;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; BIRD DISEASES; BIRDS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; GERMANY; NEUTRALIZATION TESTS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; WEST NILE FEVER; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 34848897183     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2007.77.358     Document Type: Article

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