Artigo
Serological detection of West Nile virus in horses and chicken from Pantanal, Brazil
Fecha
2012-12-01Registro en:
Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Ministério da Saúde, v. 107, n. 8, p. 1073-1075, 2012.
0074-0276
10.1590/S0074-02762012000800020
S0074-02762012000800020
S0074-02762012000800020.pdf
5821142624720398
0000-0002-5557-9721
Autor
Fiocruz Instituto Oswaldo Cruz Laboratório de Diptera
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Faculdade de Medicina de São José do Rio Preto (FAMERP)
Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Resumen
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.