West Nile virus monitoring in migrating and resident water birds in Iran: Are common coots the main reservoirs of the virus in wetlands?

Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases

Volumn 11, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1377-1381

  Fereidouni, Sasan R ^a   Ziegler, Ute ^a   Linke, Sonja ^b   Niedrig, Matthias ^b   Modirrousta, Hossein ^c   Hoffmann, Bernd ^a   Groschup, Martin H ^a  

^a FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (Germany)

^b ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^c RAZI VACCINE AND SERUM RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Iran)

Author keywords

Birds; Iran; Monitoring; West Nile Virus

Indexed keywords

VIRUS ANTIBODY; VIRUS RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOT; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; IRAN; MIGRATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROLOGY; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS NEUTRALIZATION; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS; WETLAND; WILD TYPE;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; BIRD DISEASES; BIRDS; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENOME, VIRAL; IRAN; NEUTRALIZATION TESTS; PREVALENCE; RNA, VIRAL; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; WEST NILE FEVER; WEST NILE VIRUS; WETLANDS;

ANATIDAE; AVES; FULICA ATRA; RALLIDAE; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 80053623852     PISSN: 15303667     EISSN: 15577759     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/vbz.2010.0244     Document Type: Article

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