Alligators as West Nile virus amplifiers

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 2150-2155

  Klenk, Kaci ^a,d,e   Snow, Jamie ^a   Morgan, Katrina ^a   Bowen, Richard ^b   Stephens, Michael ^a   Foster, Falicia ^a   Gordy, Paul ^b   Beckett, Susan ^a   Komar, Nicholas ^a   Gubler, Duane ^a   Bunning, Michel ^a,c  

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

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

^c USAF   (United States)

^d NATL CENTER FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^e NATIONAL WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODY; VIRUS RNA;

ALLIGATOR; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULEX QUINQUEFASCIATUS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIRUS LOAD; VIRUS NEUTRALIZATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS;

EID: 9744249396     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1012.040264     Document Type: Article

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