Land use and west nile virus seroprevalence in wild mammals.
We examined West Nile virus (WNV) seroprevalence in wild mammals along a forest-to-urban gradient in the US mid-Atlantic region. WNV antibody prevalence increased with age, urbanization, and date of capture for juveniles and varied significantly between species. These findings suggest several requirements for using mammals as indicators of transmission.
Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, USA. ag2112@caa.columbia.edu
Andrés
A
Gómez
A Marm
AM
Kilpatrick
Laura D
LD
Kramer
Alan P
AP
Dupuis
Joseph G
JG
Maffei
Scott J
SJ
Goetz
Peter P
PP
Marra
Peter
P
Daszak
A Alonso
AA
Aguirre
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