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SUBMITTER: Kim CY
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5204039 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of veterinary science 20161201 4
West Nile virus (WNV) is a mosquito-borne zoonotic pathogen that has spread throughout Europe and the United States. Recently, WNV spread to East and Southeast Asia, and great efforts have been made in South Korea to prevent the spread of WNV from neighboring countries. In this study, we diagnosed the first case of WNV in pigeons (<i>Columba livia domestica</i>) residing in cities using a competitive enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay and confirmed it with nested reverse transcription polymerase ...[more]