Detecting West Nile virus in owls and raptors by an antigen-capture assay

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 2204-2206

  Gancz, Ady Y ^a,c   Campbell, Douglas G ^a   Barker, Ian K ^a   Lindsay, Robbin ^b   Hunter, Bruce ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b Canadian Science Centre for Human and Animal Health   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIGEN CAPTURE ASSAY; ARTICLE; ASSAY; AUTOPSY; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; OWL; RAPTOR; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIRUS DETECTION; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS;

EID: 9744256912     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1012.040168     Document Type: Article

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