Are fly maggots useful for West Nile virus testing in dead crow carcasses?
Summary of "Are fly maggots useful for West Nile virus testing in dead crow carcasses?"
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Affiliation
West Valley Mosquito and Vector Control District 1295 E. Locust St., Ontario, CA 91761, U.S.A., tsu@wvmvcd.org.
Journal Details
This article was published in the following journal.
Name: Journal of vector ecology : journal of the Society for Vector Ecology
ISSN: 1081-1710
Pages: 451-3
Links
- PubMed Source: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22129418
- DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1948-7134.2011.00187.x
Medical and Biotech [MESH] Definitions
West Nile Virus Vaccines
Vaccines or candidate vaccines used to prevent infection with WEST NILE VIRUS.
West Nile Virus
A species of FLAVIVIRUS, one of the Japanese encephalitis virus group (ENCEPHALITIS VIRUSES, JAPANESE). It can infect birds and mammals. In humans, it is seen most frequently in Africa, Asia, and Europe presenting as a silent infection or undifferentiated fever (WEST NILE FEVER). The virus appeared in North America for the first time in 1999. It is transmitted mainly by CULEX spp mosquitoes which feed primarily on birds, but it can also be carried by the Asian Tiger mosquito, AEDES albopictus, which feeds mainly on mammals.
West Nile Fever
A mosquito-borne viral illness caused by the WEST NILE VIRUS, a FLAVIVIRUS and endemic to regions of Africa, Asia, and Europe. Common clinical features include HEADACHE; FEVER; maculopapular rash; gastrointestinal symptoms; and lymphadenopathy. MENINGITIS; ENCEPHALITIS; and MYELITIS may also occur. The disease may occasionally be fatal or leave survivors with residual neurologic deficits. (From Joynt, Clinical Neurology, 1996, Ch26, p13; Lancet 1998 Sep 5;352(9130):767-71)
Encephalitis Viruses, Japanese
A subgroup of the genus FLAVIVIRUS which comprises a number of viral species that are the etiologic agents of human encephalitis in many different geographical regions. These include Japanese encephalitis virus (ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS, JAPANESE), St. Louis encephalitis virus (ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS, ST. LOUIS), Murray Valley encephalitis virus (ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS, MURRAY VALLEY), and WEST NILE VIRUS.
Neutralization Tests
The measurement of infection-blocking titer of ANTISERA by testing a series of dilutions for a given virus-antiserum interaction end-point, which is generally the dilution at which tissue cultures inoculated with the serum-virus mixtures demonstrate cytopathology (CPE) or the dilution at which 50% of test animals injected with serum-virus mixtures show infectivity (ID50) or die (LD50).
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