Detection and early warning of West Nile virus circulation in Central Macedonia, Greece, using sentinel chickens and mosquitoes

Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases

Volumn 13, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 723-732

  Chaskopoulou, Alexandra ^a,b   Dovas, Chrysostomos I ^c   Chaintoutis, Serafeim C ^c   Kashefi, Javid ^a   Koehler, Philip ^b   Papanastassopoulou, Maria ^c  

^a USDA ARS European Biological Control Laboratory   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Greece; Lineage 2 strain; Sentinel chickens; West Nile virus

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; GENOMIC RNA; VIRUS ANTIBODY; VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; CHICKEN; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPIDEMIC; GREECE; LABORATORY TEST; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS VIRULENCE; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS; ANIMAL; BLOOD; CHLOROCEBUS AETHIOPS; CULEX; DNA SEQUENCE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; GENETICS; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; VERO CELL LINE; VIROLOGY; WEST NILE FEVER; ZOONOSIS;

CULEX PIPIENS; GALLUS GALLUS; WEST NILE VIRUS;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; BASE SEQUENCE; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; CHICKENS; CULEX; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RNA, VIRAL; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; VERO CELLS; WEST NILE FEVER; WEST NILE VIRUS; ZOONOSES;

EID: 84884623197     PISSN: 15303667     EISSN: 15577759     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/vbz.2012.1176     Document Type: Article

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