West Nile Virus in Horses, sub-Saharan Africa

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• Alternative Title:
  Emerg Infect Dis
• Personal Author:
  Cabre, Olivier ; Grandadam, Marc ; Marié, Jean-Lou ; Gravier, Patrick ; Prangé, Aurélie ; Santinelli, Yan ; Rous, Vincent ; Bourry, Olivier ; Durand, Jean-Paul ; Tolou, Hugues ; Davoust, Bernard
• Description:
  To evaluate the presence and extension of West Nile virus where French soldiers are stationed in Africa, specific antibody prevalence was determined by using ELISA and Western blot. Among 245 horses living in close proximity to the soldiers, seroprevalence was particularly high in Chad (97%) and Senegal (92%).
• Subjects:
  Animals Antibodies, Viral Blotting, Western Dispatch Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay Horse Diseases Horses Humans Neutralization Tests Seroepidemiologic Studies Western Blot West Nile Fever West Nile Virus

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• Source:
  Emerg Infect Dis. 12(12):1958-1960.
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Africa South of the Sahara ; Africa ; Senegal ; Côte d’Ivoire ; Chad ; Democratic Republic of the Congo ; Gabon ; Djibouti
• Location:
  Africa
• Volume:
  12
• Issue:
  12
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:ffd3597184a473aff76094111ed52e3f1d2f89644243a4743f736e863a057a58
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/16207/cdc_16207_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 208.43 KB ]