Land Use and West Nile Virus Seroprevalence in Wild Mammals

We examined West Nile virus (WNV) seroprevalence in wild mammals along a forest-to-urban gradient in the US mid-Atlantic region. WNV antibody prevalence increased with age, urbanization, and date of capture for juveniles and varied significantly between species. These findings suggest several requir...

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Autores principales: Gómez, Andrés, Kilpatrick, A. Marm, Kramer, Laura D., Dupuis, Alan P., Maffei, Joseph G., Goetz, Scott J., Marra, Peter P., Daszak, Peter, Aguirre, A. Alonso
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2600304/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18507915
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1406.070352
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Sumario:We examined West Nile virus (WNV) seroprevalence in wild mammals along a forest-to-urban gradient in the US mid-Atlantic region. WNV antibody prevalence increased with age, urbanization, and date of capture for juveniles and varied significantly between species. These findings suggest several requirements for using mammals as indicators of transmission.

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