Epidemiological surveillance of West Nile virus in the world and Brazil

Epidemiological surveillance of West Nile virus in the world and Brazil

West Nile virus (WNV) is a neurovirulent mosquito-borne Flavivirus that is maintained in nature by a zoonotic transmission cycle between avian hosts and ornithophilic mosquito vectors, mostly from the Culex genus. Until the 1990s, WNV was considered to be an old-world arbovirus, but in 1999, WNV eme...

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Main Authors: Erica Azevedo Costa, José Joffre Martins Bayeux, Aila Solimar Gonçalves Silva, Guilherme Alves de Queiroz, Beatriz Senra Álvares da Silva Santos, Marcele Neves Rocha, Izabelle Silva Rehfeld, Luisa Feliciano de Souza Franklin, Livia Braga Valle, Maria Isabel Maldonado Coelho Guedes, Raffaella Bertoni Cavalcanti Teixeira
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade de São Paulo 2020-03-01
Series:Brazilian Journal of Veterinary Research and Animal Science
Subjects:
Equine surveillance
West Nile virus
Flavivirus
Awareness
Online Access:http://www.revistas.usp.br/bjvras/article/view/164335

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