| wild bird mortality and west nile virus surveillance: biases associated with detection, reporting, and carcass persistence. | surveillance targeting dead wild birds, in particular american crows (corvus brachyrhynchos), plays a critical role in west nile virus (wnv) surveillance in the united states. using crow decoy surrogates, detection and reporting of crow carcasses within urban and rural environments of dekalb county, georgia were assessed for potential biases that might occur in the county's wnv surveillance program. in each of two replicated trials, during july and september 2003, 400 decoys were labeled with re ... | 2006 | 16699152 |
| west nile virus epizootiology in the southeastern united states, 2001. | we investigated mosquito and bird involvement in west nile virus (wnv) transmission in july 2001 in jefferson county, fl, and lowndes county, ga. we detected 16 wnv-infected pools from culex quinquefasciatus, cx. salinarius, cx. nigripalpus, and culiseta melanura. in florida, 11% of 353 bird sera neutralized wnv. antibody prevalence was greatest in northern cardinal (cardinalis cardinalis, 75%), northern mockingbird (mimus polyglottus, 50%), common ground-dove (columbina passerina, 25%), common ... | 2005 | 15815153 |