Land Use and West Nile Virus Seroprevalence in Wild Mammals

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• Alternative Title:
  Emerg Infect Dis
• Personal Author:
  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
• Description:
  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.
• Subjects:
  Animals Animals, Wild Cities Didelphis Disease Dispatch Indicator Species Land Use Mid-Atlantic Region Peromyscus Raccoons Rats Risk Rodent Diseases Sciuridae Sciurus Carolinensis Seroepidemiologic Studies Serology Species Specificity Trees Urbanization West Nile Fever West Nile Virus

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• Source:
  Emerg Infect Dis. 14(6):962-965.
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Volume:
  14
• Issue:
  6
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:3a76a213e423d766524bfbd37e72d750b03320634b092623206e55a40cb233ce
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/16779/cdc_16779_DS1.pdf
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