West Nile virus equine serosurvey in the Czech and Slovak Republics

Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases

Volumn 13, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 733-738

  Hubálek, Zdenek ^a   Ludvíková, Eva ^b   Jahn, Petr ^b   Treml, František ^b   Rudolf, Ivo ^a   Svobodová, Petra ^a   Šikutová, Silvie ^a   Betášová, Lenka ^a   Bíreš, Jozef ^c   Mojžíš, Miroslav ^d   Tinák, Martin ^d   Boldižár, Martin ^e   Citsoňová, Gabriela ^f   Staššíková, Zuzana ^f  

^a INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE BIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY AND PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES   (Czech Republic)

^c State Veterinary and Food Administration   (Slovakia)

^d State Veterinary Institute   (Slovakia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Slovakia)

^f NONE

Author keywords

Flavivirus; Horses; Mosquito borne virus; Neutralizing antibodies; West Nile virus

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODY; VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; CZECH REPUBLIC; FEMALE; HORSE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROPREVALENCE; SLOVAKIA; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS; ANIMAL; BLOOD; HORSE DISEASES; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; VETERINARY; VIROLOGY; WEST NILE FEVER;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, NEUTRALIZING; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; CZECH REPUBLIC; FEMALE; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; HUMANS; MALE; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SLOVAKIA; WEST NILE FEVER; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 84885139741     PISSN: 15303667     EISSN: 15577759     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/vbz.2012.1159     Document Type: Article

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