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<oai_dc:dc xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd">
  <dc:contributor>N.M. Nemeth</dc:contributor>
  <dc:contributor>E. Edwards</dc:contributor>
  <dc:contributor>P.R. Bright</dc:contributor>
  <dc:contributor>N. Komar</dc:contributor>
  <dc:creator>D.C. Hahn</dc:creator>
  <dc:date>2006</dc:date>
  <dc:description>Transovarial antibody transfer in owls has not been demonstrated for West Nile virus (WNV).  We sampled chicks from captive adult WNV-antibody-positive Eastern Screech-Owls (Megascops asio) to evaluate the prevalence of transovarial maternal antibody transfer, as well as titers and duration of maternal antibodies.  Twenty-four owlets aged 1 to 27 days old circulated detectable antibodies with neutralizing antibody titers ranging from 20 to 1600 (median 1:40).  Demonstrating that WNV antibodies are passively transferred transovarially is important for accurate interpretation of serologic data from young birds.</dc:description>
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  <dc:identifier>10.1637/7509-012606R1.1</dc:identifier>
  <dc:language>en</dc:language>
  <dc:title>Passive West Nile virus antibody transfer from maternal Eastern Screech-Owls (Megascops asio) to progeny</dc:title>
  <dc:type>article</dc:type>
</oai_dc:dc>