Seroprevalence of Schmallenberg virus antibodies among dairy cattle, the Netherlands, winter 2011-2012

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1065-1071

  Elbers, Armin R W ^a   Loeffen, Willie L A ^a   Quak, Sjaak ^a   de Boer Luijtze, Els ^a   van der Spek, Arco N ^b   Bouwstra, Ruth ^a   Maas, Riks ^a   Spierenburg, Marcel A H ^b   de Kluijver, Eric P ^a   van Schaik, Gerdien ^c   van der Poel, Wim H M ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Netherlands Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority   (Netherlands)

^c GD ANIMAL HEALTH   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAIRY CATTLE; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MALE; NETHERLANDS; NONHUMAN; ORTHOBUNYAVIRUS; ORTHOBUNYAVIRUS INFECTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCHMALLENBERG VIRUS; SCHMALLENBERG VIRUS INFECTION; SEROLOGY; SEROPREVALENCE; SHEEP; VIRUS NEUTRALIZATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; BUNYAVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; DAIRYING; NETHERLANDS; ORTHOBUNYAVIRUS; SEASONS; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES;

EID: 84862578180     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1807.120323     Document Type: Article

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