West Nile virus viremia in wild rock pigeons

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 2252-2255

  Allison, Andrew B ^a,c   Mead, Daniel G ^a   Gibbs, Samantha E J ^a   Hoffman, Douglas M ^b   Stallknecht, David E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b U States Dept Agric Wildl Serv   (United States)

^c Department of Infectious Diseases ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODY;

ANTIBODY SCREENING; ARTICLE; NONHUMAN; PIGEON; SEROPREVALENCE; SPRING; SUMMER; URBAN AREA; VIREMIA; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS; WINTER;

EID: 9744256166     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1012.040511     Document Type: Article

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