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MEMORIAS DO INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ
Volume 107, Issue 8, Pages 1073-1075Publisher
FUNDACO OSWALDO CRUZ
DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762012000800020
Keywords
WNV; b-ELISA; PRNT; Brazil
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- Furnas Centrais Eletricas
- ANEEL
- INCT-Dengue/CNPq
- PRONEX-Dengue/CNPq
- Panthera Foundation
- CAPES
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In an effort to detect West Nile virus (WNV) in Brazil, we sampled serum from horses and chickens from the Pantanal region of the state of Mato Grosso and tested for flavivirus-reactive antibodies by blocking ELISA. The positive samples were further confirmed for serological evidence of WNV infection in three (8%) of the 38 horses and one (3.2%) of the 31 chickens using an 80% plaque-reduction neutralisation test (PRNT80). These results provide evidence of the circulation of WNV in chickens and horses in Pantanal.
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