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Detection of Infectious Virus from Field-collected Mosquitoes by Vero Cell Culture Assay
Published on: June 9, 2011
Assays to detect West Nile virus in dead birds
Ward B Stone1, Joseph E Therrien, Robert Benson
1New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, Albany, New York, USA. wbstone@gw.dec.state.ny.us
Emerging Infectious Diseases
|December 2, 2005
Abstract:
Using oral swab samples to detect West Nile virus in dead birds, we compared the Rapid Analyte Measurement Platform (RAMP) assay with VecTest and real-time reverse-transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction. The sensitivities of RAMP and VecTest for testing corvid species were 91.0% and 82.1%, respectively.

