Nationwide Surveillance of West Nile Virus Targeting Mosquitoes and Dead Birds from April 2004 through March 2007 in Japan

Zoonoses and Public Health

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 153-157

  Shirafuji, H ^a   Kanehira, K ^a   Nishiguchi, A ^a   Kamio, T ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

Avian hosts; Japan; Mosquito vectors; Surveillance; West Nile virus

Indexed keywords

AEDES ALBOPICTUS; AEDES JAPONICUS; AEDES VEXANS NIPPONII; ANOPHELES SINENSIS; ARMIGERES SUBALBATUS; ARTICLE; BIRD; CICONIIFORMES; CROW; CULEX PIPIENS; CULEX TRITAENIORHYNCUS; DUCK; JAPAN; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; PIGEON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SONGBIRD; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS;

ANIMALS; BIRD DISEASES; BIRDS; CULICIDAE; DISEASE VECTORS; JAPAN; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; WEST NILE FEVER; WEST NILE VIRUS;

AEDES ALBOPICTUS; AEDES VEXANS; ANOPHELES SINENSIS; ANSERIFORMES; ARMIGERES SUBALBATUS; AVES; CICONIIFORMES; COLUMBIFORMES; CULEX PIPIENS; CULEX TRITAENIORHYNCHUS; OCHLEROTATUS JAPONICUS; PASSERIFORMES; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 79953747393     PISSN: 18631959     EISSN: 18632378     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1863-2378.2009.01321.x     Document Type: Article

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