Magpies as hosts for West Nile virus, Southern France

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 158-160

  Jourdain, Elsa ^a,b,c,d   Gauthier Clerc, Michel ^a   Sabatier, Philippe ^c   Grège, Océane ^a   Greenland, Timothy ^e   Leblond, Agnès ^c   Lafaye, Murielle ^f   Zeller, Hervé G ^b  

^a STATION BIOLOGIQUE DE LA TOUR DU VALAT   (France)

^b INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^c VETAGRO SUP   (France)

^d LINNAEUS UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^f French Space Agency CNES31401   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; AUTUMN; BIRD; EUROPE; FECES; FRANCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEROPREVALENCE; SPRING; VIRUS CELL INTERACTION; VIRUS SHEDDING;

EID: 38049093746     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1401.070630     Document Type: Article

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