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 >10(5) 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.
Publication types
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Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
MeSH terms
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Animals
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Bird Diseases / diagnosis*
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Bird Diseases / virology*
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Birds / virology*
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Cloaca / virology*
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Mouth / virology*
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RNA, Viral / isolation & purification
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Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
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West Nile Fever / diagnosis*
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West Nile Fever / veterinary
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West Nile Fever / virology*
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West Nile virus / genetics
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West Nile virus / isolation & purification*