Detection of West Nile Virus in Oral and Cloacal Swabs Collected from Bird Carcasses

We evaluated if postmortem cloacal and oral swabs could replace brain tissue as a specimen for West Nile virus (WNV) detection. WNV was detected in all three specimen types from 20 dead crows and jays with an average of >10(5) WNV PFU in each. These findings suggest that testing cloacal or oral s...

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Autores principales: Komar, Nicholas, Lanciotti, Robert, Bowen, Richard, Langevin, Stanley, Bunning, Michel
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2002
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Dispatch
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2730331/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12095448
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid0807.020157
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Sumario:We evaluated if postmortem cloacal and oral swabs could replace brain tissue as a specimen for West Nile virus (WNV) detection. WNV was detected in all three specimen types from 20 dead crows and jays with an average of >10(5) WNV PFU in each. These findings suggest that testing cloacal or oral swabs might be a low-resource approach to detect WNV in dead birds.

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