Epidemic Spread of Usutu Virus in Southwest Germany in 2011 to 2013 and Monitoring of Wild Birds for Usutu and West Nile Viruses

Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 481-488

  Ziegler, Ute ^a   Jöst, Hanna ^b   Müller, Kerstin ^c   Fischer, Dominik ^d   Rinder, Monika ^e   Tietze, Dieter Thomas ^f   Danner, Klaus Jürgen ^g   Becker, Norbert ^b   Skuballa, Jasmin ^h   Hamann, Hans Peter ⁱ   Bosch, Stefan ^j   Fast, Christine ^a   Eiden, Martin ^a   Schmidt Chanasit, Jonas ^k   Groschup, Martin H ^a  

^a FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (Germany)

^b German Mosquito Control Association (KABS)   (Germany)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^d JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^g State Institute for Chemical and Veterinary Analysis of Food   (Germany)

^h State Institute for Chemical and Veterinary Analysis   (Germany)

ⁱ Landesbetrieb Hessisches Landeslabor   (Germany)

^j Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union NABU Baden Württemberg   (Germany)

^k BERNHARD NOCHT INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

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Author keywords

Arbovirus; Birds; Germany; Monitoring; Usutu virus; West Nile virus

Indexed keywords

NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARBOVIRUS; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; BLACKBIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS REACTION; DEATH; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EPIDEMIC; FLAVIVIRUS; FLAVIVIRUS INFECTION; GENOME ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GERMANY; LONG DISTANCE MIGRANT; MIGRANT BIRD; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROLOGY; USUTU VIRUS; USUTU VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS NEUTRALIZATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WEST NILE FEVER; WEST NILE VIRUS; ANIMAL; BIRD; BIRD DISEASES; EPIDEMIC ENCEPHALITIS; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; FLAVIVIRUS INFECTIONS; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; JAPANESE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS; MOSQUITO; VETERINARY; VIROLOGY;

ARBOVIRUS; AVES; FLAVIVIRIDAE; JAPANESE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS GROUP; MOSQUITO-BORNE VIRUSES; RNA VIRUSES; STRIGIFORMES; TURDUS MERULA; USUTU VIRUS; WEST NILE VIRUS;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, NEUTRALIZING; BIRD DISEASES; BIRDS; CULICIDAE; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUSES, JAPANESE; ENCEPHALITIS, ARBOVIRUS; EPIDEMICS; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; FLAVIVIRUS INFECTIONS; GEOGRAPHY; GERMANY; HUMANS; WEST NILE FEVER; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 84939445368     PISSN: 15303667     EISSN: 15577759     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/vbz.2014.1746     Document Type: Article

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