Sentinel chicken coop modification for canopy-level arbovirus disease surveillance.
A pulley-block system for elevating sentinel chicken coops was designed to conduct mosquito-borne virus surveillance in the forest canopy. This modified design allows traditional captive sentinel bird cages to be hoisted easily to the desired height and lowered at regular intervals for routine maintenance and sampling of the flocks. The design specifications of this canopy system are modifications that can easily be incorporated to existing rabbit hutches used in ground-level captive sentinel systems.
Center for Vector Biology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA.
George C
GC
Condon
Sean P
SP
Healy
Ary
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Farajollahi
D000818:Animals; D001102:Arbovirus Infections / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000662:veterinary*; D002645:Chickens; D009033:Culicidae / Q000502:physiology; D007303:Insect Vectors / Q000502:physiology; D011201:Poultry Diseases / Q000821:virology*; D018571:Sentinel Surveillance; D014197:Trees