Surveillance of mosquitoes and crows for West Nile virus in the Tokyo metropolitan area

Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 413-414

  Tabei, Yukiko ^a   Hasegawa, Michiya ^a   Iwasaki, Noriko ^a   Okazaki, Terue ^a   Yoshida, Yasuko ^a   Yano, Kazuyoshi ^a  

^a Tokyo Metropolitan of Public Health ^*  (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODY;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; COW; FEMALE; JAPAN; MALE; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEROPREVALENCE; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; VIRUS VIRULENCE; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; CROWS; CULICIDAE; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS, JAPANESE; FEMALE; HEMAGGLUTINATION INHIBITION TESTS; MALE; NEUTRALIZATION TESTS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; TOKYO; WEST NILE FEVER; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 36549086753     PISSN: 13446304     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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