TY - JOUR AU - Panella, Nicholas AU - Kerst, Amy AU - Lanciotti, Robert AU - Bryant, Patricia AU - Wolf, Bruce AU - Komar, Nicholas T1 - Comparative West Nile Virus Detection in Organs of Naturally Infected American Crows (Corvus brachyrhynchos) T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2001 VL - 7 IS - 4 SP - 754 SN - 1080-6059 AB - Widespread deaths of American Crows (Corvus brachyrhynchos) were associated with the 1999 outbreak of West Nile (WN) virus in the New York City region. We compared six organs from 20 crow carcasses as targets for WN virus detection. Half the carcasses had at least one positive test result for WN virus infection. The brain was the most sensitive target organ; it was the only positive organ for three of the positive crows. The sensitivity of crow organs as targets for WN virus detection makes crow death useful for WN virus surveillance. KW - West Nile virus KW - flavivirus KW - crow KW - United States DO - 10.3201/eid0704.017430 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/7/4/01-7430_article ER - End of Reference