Nestling passerines are not important hosts for amplification of West Nile virus in Chicago, Illinois

Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 13-17

  Loss, Scott R ^a   Hamer, Gabriel L ^b   Goldberg, Tony L ^c   Ruiz, Marilyn O ^c   Kitron, Uriel D ^d   Walker, Edward D ^e   Brawn, Jeffrey D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

^d EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Birds; Culex; Field studies; Mosquito(es); West Nile virus

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ARBOVIRUS; ARTICLE; CULEX PIPIENS; DOVE; FIELD STUDY; HOST; INFECTION RATE; MOSQUITO; NESTLING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; BIRD DISEASES; CHICAGO; CULEX; INSECT VECTORS; PASSERIFORMES; RNA, VIRAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; WEST NILE FEVER; WEST NILE VIRUS;

ARBOVIRUS; AVES; CULEX PIPIENS; TROGLODYTES; WEST NILE VIRUS; ZENAIDA MACROURA;

EID: 60249099049     PISSN: 15303667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/vbz.2008.0042     Document Type: Article

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