Flavivirus Infections

Infectious Diseases of Wild Mammals and Birds in Europe

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 128-145

  Reid, Hugh W ^a   Weissenböck, Herbert ^b   Erdélyi, Károly ^c  

^a Moredun Foundation   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

^c CENTRAL VETERINARY INSTITUTE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Birds, principal hosts of WNV, viraemic birds and infectious cycle; Flaviviridae, tick mosquito borne and no known arthropod vectors; Flavivirus, Louping ill RNA virus, isolated in tissue culture; Flu like illness (West Nile fever), in humans, and fatal encephalitis; Group B arboviruses, ultrastructural as Togaviruses; Microscopic lesions and WNV, in brain heart; Viraemic stage of WNV in mammals, short circulating levels low; Vulnerable bird species USUV, tissue tropism, CNS viral replication; WNV isolates, humans wild birds horses rodents ticks; WNV or West Nile fever, in vertebrate species

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887240363     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118342442.ch9     Document Type: Chapter

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