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. 2019 May 21;11(5):459. doi: 10.3390/v11050459

Table 1.

Recently reported natural exposures of artiodactyls to West Nile virus.

Common Name Scientific Name Detection Type Location Reference
Wild boar Sus scrofa Antibodies Serbia [12]
Antibodies Czech Republic [13]
Antibodiesa Spain [14]
Antibodiesa Spain [15]
Roe deer Capreolus capreolus Antibodies Serbia [12]
Antibodies Czech Republic [13]
Red deer Cervus elaphus Antibodies Czech Republic [13]
Antibodiesb Spain [16]
Antibodiesa Spain [15]
Fallow deer Dama dama Antibodies Czech Republic [13]
Antibodiesb Spain [16]
Mouflon Ovis sp. Antibodies Czech Republic [13]
Antibodiesb Spain [16]
Dromedary camel Camelus dromedarius Antibodiesa,c Spain [17]
Virus UAEd [18]
“Camel” Not listede Antibodiesa,c USAf [19]
African forest buffalo Syncerus caffer nanus Antibodies DRCg [20]
White-tailed deer Odocoileus virginianus Antibodies Multiple USA [21]
Reindeer Rangifer tarandus tarandus Antibodiesa,c Alberta, CA [22]

a Indicates that a single test (e.g., enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay [ELISA]) was used, samples were not tested against multiple flaviviruses, or it is unclear if samples were tested against multiple flaviviruses. Therefore, all detections may or may not represent WNV. b Data were presented as WNV and antigenically related flaviviruses. c Animals were from a privately owned collection. d United Arab Emirates. Original paper did not list specific location of animal and if animal was privately owned of feral. e Species of camel was not listed in original paper. Animals were privately owned. f Serum samples were sent to a diagnostic laboratory. The actual locations of where the privately owned animals were sampled was not listed in the original paper. g Democratic Republic of the Congo.