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  • Title: Detection of West Nile virus in oral and cloacal swabs collected from bird carcasses.
    Author: Komar N, Lanciotti R, Bowen R, Langevin S, Bunning M.
    Journal: Emerg Infect Dis; 2002 Jul; 8(7):741-2. PubMed ID: 12095448.
    Abstract:
    We evaluated if postmortem cloacal and oral swabs could replace brain tissue as a specimen for West Nile virus (WNV) detection. WNV was detected in all three specimen types from 20 dead crows and jays with an average of >10(5) WNV PFU in each. These findings suggest that testing cloacal or oral swabs might be a low-resource approach to detect WNV in dead birds.
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