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

Komar, Nicholas; Lanciotti, Robert; Bowen, Richard; Langevin, Stanley; Bunning, Michel

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

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Jul 2002
By Komar, Nicholas ; Lanciotti, Robert ; Bowen, Richard ; ...

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Emerg Infect Dis
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Komar, Nicholas ; Lanciotti, Robert ; Bowen, Richard ; Langevin, Stanley ; Bunning, Michel
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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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Animals Bird Diseases Birds Cloaca Dispatch Mouth Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction Rna, Viral West Nile Fever
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Emerg Infect Dis. 8(7):741-742.
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Journal Article
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8
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7
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Emerging Infectious Diseases
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