Rapid assessment of West Nile virus circulation in a German zoo based on honey-baited FTA cards in combination with box gravid traps

• Published in: Parasites & Vectors
• Main Authors: Fynmore, Noelle, Lühken, Renke, Maisch, Heike, Risch, Tina, Merz, Sabine, Kliemke, Konstantin, Ziegler, Ute, Schmidt-Chanasit, Jonas, Becker, Norbert
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: BioMed Central 2021
• Subjects: Research; Cummings; Flinders; Nyctea scandiaca
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8419893/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34488835; https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-021-04951-8

BACKGROUND: For over a decade, monitoring of West Nile virus (WNV) in Germany has consisted of a bird monitoring programme as well as a mosquito-based surveillance programme employing CO(2)-baited encephalitis vector surveillance (EVS) traps for mass trapping and screening of mosquitoes. In contrast...