JWD Your personal alerts
HOME HELP FEEDBACK SUBSCRIPTIONS ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS
QUICK SEARCH:   [advanced]


     

Journal of Wildlife Diseases, 44(3), 2008, pp. 766-771
© Wildlife Disease Association  2008
This Article
Right arrow Full Text
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrow reprints & permissions
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Jourdain, E.
Right arrow Articles by Gauthier-Clerc, M.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by Jourdain, E.
Right arrow Articles by Gauthier-Clerc, M.

SHORT COMMUNICATION

Prevalence of West Nile Virus Neutralizing Antibodies in Wild Birds from the Camargue Area, Southern France

 Elsa Jourdain1,2,3,4,7, Hervé G. Zeller2, Philippe Sabatier3, Séverine Murri2, Yves Kayser4, Timothy Greenland5, Murielle Lafaye6 and Michel Gauthier-Clerc4

1 Section for Zoonotic Ecology and Epidemiology, Department of Biology and Environmental Science, Kalmar University, SE-291 82 Kalmar, Sweden
2 National Reference Center for Arboviruses, Institut Pasteur, IFR 128, 21 avenue Tony Garnier, F-69365 Lyon cedex 07, France
3 Unité EPSP-TIMC, UMR 55-25, Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire de Lyon, 1 avenue Bourgelat, F-69280 Marcy l’Etoile, France
4 Centre de Recherche de la Tour du Valat, Le Sambuc, F-13200 Arles, France
5 UMR 754, Rétrovirus et Pathologie Comparée, INRA/ENVL/UCBL/EPHE, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, IFR 128 Biosciences Lyon Gerland, 50 avenue Tony Garnier, F-69366 Lyon Cedex 07, France
6 CNES, French Space Agency, 8 Avenue Edouard Belin, F-31401 Toulouse Cedex 04, France
7 Corresponding author (email: Elsa.Jourdain{at}hik.se)

ABSTRACT:   The Camargue area of southern France experienced the re-emergence of West Nile Virus (WNV) in the late summer of 2000 and 2004. Immediately preceding the 2004 outbreak, samples were collected from 432 birds of 32 different species captured in mist nets and from 201 Cattle Egret (Bubulcus ibis) nestlings sampled in their nests between 1 April and 12 June 2004. West Nile virus neutralizing titers of ≥40 were detected in 4.8% (95% confidence limit, 2.9–7.5%) of the adult birds and in 1.6% (0.3–4.6%) of the egret nestlings. Migratory passerines had a higher prevalence of WNV neutralizing antibodies (7.0%) than did resident and short-distance migratory passerines (0.8%), suggesting exposure to WNV or a related flavivirus during overwintering in Africa.
  Key words:  Antibodies, Camargue, sero-survey, West Nile virus, wild birds.






HOME HELP FEEDBACK SUBSCRIPTIONS ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS
Copyright © 2008 by the Wildlife Disease Association.