Detection of antibodies to West Nile virus in horses, Costa Rica, 2004

Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1081-1084

  Hobson Peters, Jody ^a,b   Arévalo, Carolina ^c   Cheah, Wai Yuen ^a   Blitvich, Bradley J ^d   Tan, Cindy Si En ^a   Sandis, Alexis ^c   Araya, Luis Nazario ^c   Hernández, Jose Luis ^c   Toye, Philip ^e   Hall, Roy A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b University of Melbourne   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL   (Costa Rica)

^d IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e INTERNATIONAL LIVESTOCK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

Author keywords

blocking ELISA; Costa Rica; peptide WN19; PRNT; West Nile virus; Western blot

Indexed keywords

VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; COSTA RICA; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HORSE DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERODIAGNOSIS; VIRUS PLAQUE; WEST NILE FEVER; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; COSTA RICA; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; WEST NILE FEVER; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EQUIDAE; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 79957982589     PISSN: 15303667     EISSN: 15577759     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/vbz.2010.0198     Document Type: Article

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