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

Author

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

Subjects
bird mortality, fecal shedding, Flaviviridae, flavivirus, United States, viral RNA detection, Medicine, Infectious and parasitic diseases, RC109-216
Abstract

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 >105 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.

Published
2002
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