Usutu virus in migratory song thrushes, Spain

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1173-1175

  Höfle, Ursula ^a   Gamino, Virginia ^a   Fernández de Mera, Isabel G ^a,c   Mangold, Atilio J ^b   Ortíz, José Antonio ^d   de la Fuente, José ^a,e  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIÓN EN RECURSOS CINEGÉTICOS IREC CSIC UCLM JCCM   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE TECNOLOGÍA AGROPECUARIA   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^d Medianilla Sl   (Spain)

^e OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; AUTOPSY; BLOOD DONOR; CROSS REACTION; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; ENCEPHALITIS; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS; FEMALE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HEALTH PROGRAM; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LETTER; MALE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MOSQUITO; NEIGHBOR JOINING METHOD; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY; PURKINJE CELL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; USUTU FLAVIVIRUS; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ENCEPHALITIS; MIGRATORY BIRD; SONG THRUSH; USUTU VIRUS; VIRUSES;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; BIRD DISEASES; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUSES, JAPANESE; FEMALE; FLAVIVIRUS INFECTIONS; MALE; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; PHYLOGENY; RNA, VIRAL; SONGBIRDS; SPAIN;

EID: 84879129704     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1907.130199     Document Type: Letter

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