Land Use and West Nile Virus Seroprevalence in Wild Mammals
Open Access
- 1 June 2008
- journal article
- Published by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Emerging Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 14 (6) , 962-965
- https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1406.070352
Abstract
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.Keywords
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