title: [Isolation of the West Nile fever virus from the great cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo, the crow Corvus corone, and Hyalomma marginatum ticks associated with them in natural and synanthroic biocenosis in the Volga delta (Astrakhan region, 2001)].
abstract: Four strains identified as West Nile fever virus by inhibited hemagglutination and neutralization tests, enzyme immunoassay, and reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction were isolated during a virological examination of birds and their collected ticks in the natural and synanthropic biocenoses of the Volga delta. The strains were isolated from the great cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo), the crow (Corvus corone) and its collected Hyalomma marginatum nymphs. The types of interpopulational relations in the ecological system wild-birds-virus-mosquitoes-synanthroic birds-ticks are discussed.
authors.forename: D K
authors.initials: DK
authors.lastname: L'vov
authors.forename: A F
authors.initials: AF
authors.lastname: Dzharkenov
authors.forename: D N
authors.initials: DN
authors.lastname: L'vov
authors.forename: V A
authors.initials: VA
authors.lastname: Aristova
authors.forename: A I
authors.initials: AI
authors.lastname: Kovtunov
authors.forename: V L
authors.initials: VL
authors.lastname: Gromashevskiĭ
authors.forename: O I
authors.initials: OI
authors.lastname: Vyshemirskiĭ
authors.forename: I V
authors.initials: IV
authors.lastname: Galkina
authors.forename: S V
authors.initials: SV
authors.lastname: Al'khovskiĭ
authors.forename: E I
authors.initials: EI
authors.lastname: Samokhvalov
authors.forename: A G
authors.initials: AG
authors.lastname: Prilipov
authors.forename: P G
authors.initials: PG
authors.lastname: Deriabin
authors.forename: E I
authors.initials: EI
authors.lastname: Odolevskiĭ
authors.forename: R M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Ibragimov
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000956:Antigens, Viral / Q000032:analysis; D001717:Birds / Q000469:parasitology / Q000821:virology*; D006386:Hemagglutination Tests; D007124:Immunoenzyme Techniques; D009500:Neutralization Tests; D020133:Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction; D012426:Russia; D013045:Species Specificity; D013987:Ticks / Q000821:virology*; D014902:West Nile virus / Q000235:genetics / Q000276:immunology / Q000302:isolation & purification*
chemical_list: D000956:Antigens, Viral