Serological Evidence of Widespread Circulation of West Nile Virus and Other Flaviviruses in Equines of the Pantanal, Brazil

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Pauvolid Corrêa, Alex ^a,b   Campos, Zilca ^c   Juliano, Raquel ^c   Velez, Jason ^b   Nogueira, Rita Maria Ribeiro ^a   Komar, Nicholas ^b  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^c EMBRAPA CERRADOS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAZIL; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EQUIDAE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLAQUE REDUCTION NEUTRALIZATION TEST; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; SERODIAGNOSIS; SEROLOGY; VIRUS PATHOGENESIS; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS; WESTERN EQUINE ENCEPHALOMYELITIS ALPHAVIRUS;

ALLIGATORS AND CROCODILES; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, NEUTRALIZING; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; BRAZIL; HORSES; SHEEP; WEST NILE FEVER; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 84895739312     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0002706     Document Type: Article

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