Detection and molecular analysis of West Nile virus infections in birds of prey in the eastern part of Austria in 2008 and 2009

Veterinary Microbiology

Volumn 149, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 358-366

  Wodak, Eveline ^a   Richter, Susanne ^a   Bagó, Zoltán ^a   Revilla Fernández, Sandra ^a   Weissenböck, Herbert ^b   Nowotny, Norbert ^b   Winter, Petra ^a  

^a AUSTRIAN AGENCY FOR HEALTH AND FOOD SAFETY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

Author keywords

Austria; Flavivirus; Goshawk; Mosquito borne flavivirus; West Nile virus; Zoonosis

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS NEUTRALIZATION; WEST NILE FEVER; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; AUSTRIA; BIRD DISEASES; CELLS, CULTURED; CHICKENS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; MALE; MICE; NEUTRALIZATION TESTS; OVUM; PHYLOGENY; RAPTORS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; WEST NILE FEVER; WEST NILE VIRUS;

ACCIPITER GENTILIS; AVES; FALCO RUSTICOLUS; FLAVIVIRUS; RAPTORES; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 79953065787     PISSN: 03781135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetmic.2010.12.012     Document Type: Article

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