Reduced avian virulence and viremia of West Nile virus isolates from Mexico and Texas

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 85, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 758-767

  Brault, Aaron C ^a   Langevin, Stanley A ^b   Ramey, Wanichaya N ^b   Fang, Ying ^b   Beasley, David W C ^c   Barker, Christopher M ^b   Sanders, Todd A ^d   Reisen, William K ^b   Barrett, Alan D T ^c   Bowen, Richard A ^e  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

^d U S FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE   (United States)

^e Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORVUS BRACHYRHYNCHOS; CROW; FLAVIVIRUS INFECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GLYCOSYLATION; MEXICO; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEROLOGY; SPARROW; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; SURVIVAL; UNITED STATES; VIREMIA; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS PLAQUE; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; VIRUS VIRULENCE; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; BASE SEQUENCE; BIRDS; DNA PRIMERS; GLYCOSYLATION; MEXICO; TEXAS; VIRULENCE; WEST NILE VIRUS;

AVES; CORVUS BRACHYRHYNCHOS; MURINAE; PASSER DOMESTICUS; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 80053907544     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2011.10-0439     Document Type: Article

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