Serological detection of West Nile virus in horses and chicken from Pantanal, Brazil
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2012-12-01
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Melandri, Vanessa
Guimarães, Anthony Érico
Komar, Nicholas
Nogueira, Maurício L
Mondini, Adriano [UNESP]
Fernandez-Sesma, Ana
Alencar, Jeronimo
Bosch, Irene
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Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Ministério da Saúde
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In an effort to detect West Nile virus (WNV) in Brazil, we sampled serum from horses and chickens from the Pantanal region of the state of Mato Grosso and tested for flavivirus-reactive antibodies by blocking ELISA. The positive samples were further confirmed for serological evidence of WNV infection in three (8%) of the 38 horses and one (3.2%) of the 31 chickens using an 80% plaque-reduction neutralisation test (PRNT80). These results provide evidence of the circulation of WNV in chickens and horses in Pantanal.
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WNV, b-ELISA, PRNT, Brazil
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Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Ministério da Saúde, v. 107, n. 8, p. 1073-1075, 2012.