Setting up a SPF Chicken Model for the Pathotyping of West Nile Virus (WNV) Strains

Transboundary and Emerging Diseases

Volumn 60, Issue SUPPL.2, 2013, Pages 51-62

  Dridi, M ^a   Rauw, F ^a   Muylkens, B ^b   Lecollinet, S ^c   van den Berg, T ^a   Lambrecht, B ^a  

^a VETERINARY AND AGROCHEMICAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAMUR   (Belgium)

^c ECOLE NATIONALE VÉTÉRINAIRE D ALFORT   (France)

Author keywords

Experimental infection; Mortality rate; SPF chickens; Viral RNA load; Viremia; West Nile virus

Indexed keywords

VIRUS ANTIBODY; VIRUS RNA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BELGIUM; CHICKEN; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPIDEMIC; EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION; FOLLOW UP; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; MORTALITY; PATHOGENICITY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPF CHICKENS; STATISTICS; VIRAL RNA LOAD; VIREMIA; VIROLOGY; WEST NILE FEVER; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS;

EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION; MORTALITY RATE; SPF CHICKENS; VIRAL RNA LOAD; VIREMIA; WEST NILE VIRUS;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; BELGIUM; CHICKENS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; VIREMIA; WEST NILE FEVER; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 84887394615     PISSN: 18651674     EISSN: 18651682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/tbed.12144     Document Type: Article

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