Gómez Andrés, Kilpatrick A Marm, Kramer Laura D, Dupuis Alan P, Maffei Joseph G, Goetz Scott J, Marra Peter P, Daszak Peter, Aguirre A Alonso
Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, USA.
Emerg Infect Dis. 2008 Jun;14(6):962-5. doi: 10.3201/eid1406.070352.
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.
我们在美国中大西洋地区沿着从森林到城市的梯度，对野生哺乳动物中的西尼罗河病毒（WNV）血清流行率进行了检测。WNV抗体流行率随年龄、城市化程度以及幼体的捕获日期而增加，并且在不同物种之间存在显著差异。这些发现表明将哺乳动物用作传播指标有几个要求。
