Emergence and establishment of Usutu virus infection in wild and captive avian species in and around Zurich, Switzerland-Genomic and pathologic comparison to other central European outbreaks

Veterinary Microbiology

Volumn 148, Issue 2-4, 2011, Pages 207-212

  Steinmetz, Hanspeter W ^a   Bakonyi, Tamás ^b,c   Weissenböck, Herbert ^b   Hatt, Jean Michel ^a   Eulenberger, Ulrike ^a   Robert, Nadia ^d   Hoop, Richard ^a   Nowotny, Norbert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

^c SZENT ISTVÁN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Blackbirds; Ectoparasites; Herd immunity; House sparrows; Passeriformes; Strigiformes; Switzerland; USUV

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COORDINATION DISORDER; DEATH; DEPRESSION; ECTOPARASITE; EPIDEMIC; EUROPE; FLAVIVIRUS; FLAVIVIRUS INFECTION; FOWL; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOMICS; HEPATOMEGALY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUNG DISEASE; MORTALITY; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEIZURE; SPLENOMEGALY; SWITZERLAND; USUTU FLAVIVIRUS; USUTU VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; AUSTRIA; BIRD DISEASES; CULICIDAE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EMERGENCIES; FLAVIVIRIDAE; FLAVIVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; GENOME; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; PASSERIFORMES; RNA, VIRAL; SEASONS; STRIGIFORMES; SWITZERLAND;

ANIMALIA; AVES; FLAVIVIRUS; PASSER DOMESTICUS; PASSERIFORMES; STRIGIFORMES; USUTU VIRUS;

EID: 79951578091     PISSN: 03781135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetmic.2010.09.018     Document Type: Article

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