Monitoring West Nile virus (WNV) infection in wild birds in Serbia during 2012: First isolation and characterisation of WNV strains from Serbia

Eurosurveillance

Volumn 18, Issue 44, 2013, Pages

  Petrovic T ^a   Blazquez A B ^b   Lupulovic D ^a   Lazic G ^a   Escribano Romero, E ^b   Fabijan, D ^c   Kapetanov, M ^a   Lazic S ^a   Saiz, J C ^b  

^a Scientific Veterinary Institute 'Novi Sad'   (Serbia)

^b INIA   (Spain)

^c Bird Protection and Study Society of Serbia   (Serbia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEIN 3; VIRUS RNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIRD; BIRD DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FLAVIVIRUS INFECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SERBIA; VIRUS CHARACTERIZATION; VIRUS CULTURE; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS NEUTRALIZATION; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS;

EID: 84886689806     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES2013.18.44.20622     Document Type: Article

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