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. 2014 Mar 13;9(3):e89601. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0089601

Table 2. Results of virus neutralization tests performed to determine if the anti-flavivirus antibodies found in the egg extracts or chick sera were specific to West Nile (WNV), Usutu (USUV), tick-borne encephalitis (TBEV), or Meaban viruses.

Country Sample Colony Year ELISA (N) WNV (N) USUV (N) TBEV (N) Meaban virus (N)
France Egg extracts Corrège 2009 1(32) 0 (1) 0 (1) 0 (1) 1 (1)
2010 1 (32) 0 (1) 0 (1) 0 (1) -
Villeneuve 2009 1 (32) 0 (1) 0 (1) 0 (1) 1 (1)
Spain Egg extracts L'Escala 2010 4 (6) 0 (2) 0 (2) 0 (2) 2 (2)
Medes 2009 14 (38) 0 (14) 0 (2) 0 (2) 14 (14)
2010 24 (49) 0 (22) 0 (3) 0 (4) 22 (22)
2011 33 (49) 0 (33) 0 (3) 1* (3) 33 (33)
2012 34 (51) 0 (34) - - 34 (34)
Chick sera Medes 2009 0 (59) - - - -
2010 3 (120) 0 (3) - - 3 (3)
2011 0 (76) - - - -
2012 13 (246) 3* (13) - - 13 (13)
Adult sera Medes 2009 1 (1) 0 (1) - - 1 (1)
2012 1 (1) 0 (1) - - 1 (1)
Algeria Egg extracts Jijel 2010 1 (31) 0 (1) 0 (1) - 0 (1)

The numbers indicate the number of positive samples titer values ≥20).

The sample size is indicated in parentheses. The * indicates samples in which titer values were equal to 20 for WNV or TBEV whereas they were ≥20 for Meaban virus.