Peer-reviewed veterinary case report
Usutu Virus Antibody Dynamics in Naturally Infected Blackbirds, the Netherlands, 2016-2018.
- Journal:
- Emerging infectious diseases
- Year:
- 2025
- Authors:
- de Bruin, Erwin et al.
- Species:
- bird
Abstract
Usutu virus is a zoonotic arbovirus that causes massive mortality in blackbirds. Using a unique longitudinal dataset on the kinetics of virus-specific antibodies in naturally infected wild blackbirds (Turdus merula), we found that individual birds may remain seropositive for >1 year and that reinfection can occur despite low-level virus neutralizing antibodies.
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