Serosurvey of West Nile virus and other flaviviruses of the Japanese encephalitis antigenic complex in birds from Andalusia, southern Spain

Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1107-1113

  García Bocanegra, Ignacio ^a   Busquets, Núria ^b   Napp, Sebastián ^b   Alba, Ana ^b   Zorrilla, Irene ^c   Villalba, Rubén ^d   Arenas, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CÓRDOBA   (Spain)

^b CENTRE DE RECERCA EN SANITAT ANIMAL CRESA   (Spain)

^c JUNTA DE ANDALUCÍA   (Spain)

^d Laboratorio Central de Veterinaria   (Spain)

Author keywords

Flavivirus; Serosurvey; Spain; West Nile virus; Wild birds

Indexed keywords

NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODY;

ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; BIRD; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FLAVIVIRUS; JAPANESE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGY; SEROPREVALENCE; SPAIN; VIRUS SHEDDING; VULNERABLE POPULATION; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, VIRAL; BIRD DISEASES; BIRDS; ENCEPHALITIS, JAPANESE; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FLAVIVIRUS; GEOGRAPHY; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPAIN; WEST NILE FEVER; WEST NILE VIRUS;

ANIMALIA; AQUILA HELIACA ADALBERTI; AVES; CORAGYPS; FLAVIVIRUS; JAPANESE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS; MILVUS; NEOPHRON PERCNOPTERUS; PLATALEA LEUCORODIA; VERTEBRATA; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 80051478835     PISSN: 15303667     EISSN: 15577759     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/vbz.2009.0237     Document Type: Article

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