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Detection of West Nile Virus in Oral and Cloacal Swabs Collected from Bird Carcasses
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Jul 2002
Source: Emerg Infect Dis. 8(7):741-742.
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Alternative Title:Emerg Infect Dis
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Description: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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