Antecedent avian immunity limits tangential transmission of West Nile virus to humans

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Kwan, Jennifer L ^a   Kluh, Susanne ^b   Reisen, William K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Greater Los Angeles County Vector Control District   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DILUTION; EPIDEMIC; FLAVIVIRUS INFECTION; HEN; HERD IMMUNITY; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; SEROCONVERSION; SEROPREVALENCE; UNITED STATES; VIRUS IMMUNITY; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS; WEST NILE NEUROINVASIVE DISEASE; ANIMAL; BIRD; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; IMMUNOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; VIROLOGY; WEST NILE FEVER;

AVES; CARPODACUS MEXICANUS; EQUIDAE; FLAVIVIRUS; GALLUS GALLUS; PASSER DOMESTICUS; WEST NILE VIRUS;

VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; BIRDS; HUMANS; WEST NILE FEVER; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 84858781653     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0034127     Document Type: Article

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