| Literature DB >> 11585545 |
D E Swayne1, J R Beck, C S Smith, W J Shieh, S R Zaki.
Abstract
During 1999 and 2000, a disease outbreak of West Nile (WN) virus occurred in humans, horses, and wild and zoological birds in the northeastern USA. In our experiments, WN virus infection of young domestic geese (Anser anser domesticus) caused depression, weight loss, torticollis, opisthotonus, and death with accompanying encephalitis and myocarditis. Based on this experimental study and a field outbreak in Israel, WN virus is a disease threat to young goslings and viremia levels are potentially sufficient to infect mosquitoes and transmit WN virus to other animal species.Entities:
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Year: 2001 PMID: 11585545 PMCID: PMC2631765 DOI: 10.3201/eid0704.010429
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Emerg Infect Dis ISSN: 1080-6040 Impact factor: 6.883