Susceptibility of carrion crows to experimental infection with lineage 1 and 2 West Nile viruses

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1357-1365

  Lim, Stephanie M ^a   Brault, Aaron C ^b   van Amerongen, Geert ^a   Bosco Lauth, Angela M ^b   Romo, Hannah ^b   Sewbalaksing, Varsha D ^a   Bowen, Richard A ^c   Osterhaus, Albert D M E ^a,d   Koraka, Penelope ^a,d   Martina, Byron E E ^a,d  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

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

^c Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^d Artemis One Health   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS ANTIGEN; VIRUS RNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CORVUS BRACHYRHYNCHOS; CORVUS CORONE; CROW; CYTOPATHOGENIC EFFECT; FLAVIVIRUS INFECTION; ID50; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SURVIVAL; VIRAL TROPISM; VIREMIA; VIRUS CULTURE; VIRUS LOAD; VIRUS NEUTRALIZATION; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; VIRUS VIRULENCE; WEST NILE VIRUS; ANIMAL; BIRD DISEASE; CLASSIFICATION; CORVUS; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; MORTALITY; PATHOGENICITY; VIROLOGY; VIRULENCE; WEST NILE FEVER;

ANIMALS; BIRD DISEASES; CROWS; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; VIRULENCE; WEST NILE FEVER; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 84937432558     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid2108.140714     Document Type: Article

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