Komar Nicholas, Lanciotti Robert, Bowen Richard, Langevin Stanley, Bunning Michel
Arbovirus Diseases Branch, Division of Vector-Borne Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Fort Collins, Colorado 80522, USA.
Emerg Infect Dis. 2002 Jul;8(7):741-2. doi: 10.3201/eid0807.020157.
We evaluated if postmortem cloacal and oral swabs could replace brain tissue as a specimen for West Nile virus (WNV) detection. WNV was detected in all three specimen types from 20 dead crows and jays with an average of >10(5) WNV PFU in each. These findings suggest that testing cloacal or oral swabs might be a low-resource approach to detect WNV in dead birds.
我们评估了死后泄殖腔拭子和口腔拭子是否可以替代脑组织作为检测西尼罗河病毒(WNV)的样本。在20只死亡乌鸦和松鸦的所有三种样本类型中均检测到了WNV,每种样本中的WNV空斑形成单位平均>10⁵。这些发现表明,检测泄殖腔或口腔拭子可能是一种资源消耗较低的方法,用于检测死鸟中的WNV。