Detection of West Nile Virus in Oral and Cloacal Swabs Collected from Bird Carcasses
Open Access
- 1 July 2002
- journal article
- Published by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Emerging Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 8 (7) , 741-742
- https://doi.org/10.3201/eid0807.020157
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.Keywords
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