Serological evidence of West Nile Virus infection in horses from the municipality of Castelo Branco

• Author(s): Loureiro, Filipa ; Pires, Humberto ; Cardoso, Luis ; Lopes, Ana Patrícia ; Fontes, Maria da Conceição ; Santos Pintado, Cristina Maria Baptista ; Figueira, Luis Manuel Faria ; Matos, Manuela ; Coelho, Ana Cláudia ; Matos, Ana
• Date: 2024
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.11/10071
• Origin: Repositório Científico do Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco
• Subject(s): Horse; ELISA; Equine; Seroprevalence; West Nile Virus
• Document Type: Conference paper
• Language: English
• Contributor(s): Repositório Científico do Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco

Description

West Nile Virus (WNV) is an RNA virus from the family Flaviviridae. It is transmitted by several genera of mosquitoes, with Cullex spp. as the main vectors identified in Europe and North America. Birds are amplifying agents and important to the transmission cycle, during the viremia period. Equines are considered dead-ends hosts and are recognized as sentinels of the virus in many countries.