| serosurvey reveals exposure to west nile virus in asymptomatic horse populations in central spain prior to recent disease foci. | west nile fever/encephalitis (wnf) is an infectious disease affecting horses, birds and humans, with a cycle involving birds as natural reservoirs and mosquitoes as transmission vectors. it is a notifiable disease, re-emerging in europe. in spain, it first appeared in horses in the south (andalusia) in 2010, where outbreaks occur every year since. however, in 2014, an outbreak was declared in horses in central spain, approximately 200 km away from the closest foci in andalusia. before that, evid ... | 2016 | 27156847 |
| monitoring of west nile virus, usutu virus and meaban virus in waterfowl used as decoys and wild raptors in southern spain. | in the last decade, the number of emerging flaviviruses described worldwide has increased considerably, with wild birds acting as the main reservoir hosts of these viruses. we carried out an epidemiological survey to determine the seroprevalence of antigenically related flaviviruses, particularly west nile virus (wnv), usutu virus (usuv) and meaban virus (mbv), in waterfowl used as decoys and wild raptors in andalusia (southern spain), the region considered to have the highest risk of flavivirus ... | 2016 | 27865265 |