TY - JOUR AU - Gómez, Andrés AU - Kilpatrick, A. Marm AU - Kramer, Laura D. AU - Dupuis, Alan P. AU - Maffei, Joseph G. AU - Goetz, Scott J. AU - Marra, Peter P. AU - Daszak, Peter AU - Aguirre, A. Alonso T1 - Land Use and West Nile Virus Seroprevalence in Wild Mammals T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2008 VL - 14 IS - 6 SP - 962 SN - 1080-6059 AB - 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. KW - Land use KW - disease KW - urbanization KW - serology KW - Sciurus carolinensis KW - indicator species KW - risk KW - dispatch KW - United States DO - 10.3201/eid1406.070352 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/14/6/07-0352_article ER - End of Reference