Rapid amplification of West Nile virus the role of hatch-year birds

Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 57-67

  Hamer, Gabriel L ^a   Walker, Edward D ^b   Brawn, Jeffrey D ^c   Loss, Scott R ^c   Ruiz, Marilyn O ^c   Goldberg, Tony L ^c   Schotthoefer, Anna M ^c   Brown, William M ^c   Wheeler, Emily ^c   Kitron, Uriel D ^c  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Illinois ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Culex infection; Hatch year birds; Rapid amplification; West Nile virus

Indexed keywords

VIRUS ANTIBODY; VIRUS RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BIRD; CARDINALIS CARDINALIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULEX PIPIENS; DUMETELLA CARLINENSIS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEROPREVALENCE; SPARROW; TURDUS MIGRATORIUS; UNITED STATES; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; BIRDS; CHICAGO; CULEX; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; HUMANS; INSECT BITES AND STINGS; INSECT VECTORS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; SEASONS; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; WEST NILE FEVER; WEST NILE VIRUS;

AVES; CULEX PIPIENS; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 39449139903     PISSN: 15303667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/vbz.2007.0123     Document Type: Article

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