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- Title
First detection of West Nile virus in domestic pigeon in Korea.
- Authors
C-Yoon Kim; Hanseul Oh; Juha Song; Moonsuk Hur; Jae-Hwa Suh; Weon-Hwa Jheong; Jong-Taek Kim; Hong-Shik Oh; Jae-Hak Park
- Abstract
West Nile virus (WNV) is a mosquito-borne zoonotic pathogen that has spread throughout Europe and the United States. Recently, WNV spread to East and Southeast Asia, and great efforts have been made in South Korea to prevent the spread of WNV from neighboring countries. In this study, we diagnosed the first case of WNV in pigeons (Columba livia domestica) residing in cities using a competitive enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay and confirmed it with nested reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction analysis and sequencing. This is the first report to provide convincing evidence that WNV is present within South Korea.
- Subjects
WEST Nile virus; PIGEONS as laboratory animals; FLAVIVIRUSES; POLYMERASE chain reaction; ENZYME-linked immunosorbent assay
- Publication
Journal of Veterinary Science, 2016, Vol 17, Issue 4, p587
- ISSN
1229-845X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4142/jvs.2016.17.4.587