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Volume 9, Number 7—July 2003
Dispatch

Serologic Evidence of West Nile Virus Transmission, Jamaica, West Indies

Alan P. Dupuis*Comments to Author , Peter P. Marra†, and Laura D. Kramer*
Author affiliations: *New York State Department of Health, Slingerlands, New York, USA; †Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Edgewater, Maryland, USA

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Table 2

Ninety percent plaque reduction neutralization titers to West Nile virus, St. Louis encephalitis virus, and Ilhéus virus in enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay reactive bird specimensa

Field site Species ILHV SLEV WNV Interpretation
Westmoreland Parish, Jamaica
 White-chinned thrush
(Turdus aurantius)b
 40
 80
 640
 WNV
White-chinned thrush
(T. aurantius)b
 <40
 <40
 320
 WNV
Jamaican elaenia (Myiopagis cotta)b
 <40
 160
 640
 WNV
Bananaquit
(Coereba flaveola)b
 <40
 80
 160
 Flavivirus
Loggerhead kingbird
(Tyrannus caudifasciatus)b
 <40
 <40
 320
 WNV
Bananaquit (C. flaveola)b
 <40
 <40
 160
 WNV
White-chinned thrush
(Turdus aurantius)b
 <40
 40
 >1,280
 WNV
Bananaquit (C. flaveola)b
 <40
 <40
 80
 WNV
Northern mockingbird
(Mimus polyglottos)b
 <40
 <40
 320
 WNV
Caribbean dove
(Leptotila jamaicensis)b
 <40
 >1,280
 80
 SLEV
Jamaican elaenia
(Myiopagis cotta)b
 <40
 <40
 160
 WNV
Bananaquit (C. flaveola)b
 <40
 40
 80
 Flavivirus
White-chinned thrush
(Turdus aurantius)b
 <40
 40
 640
 WNV
Jamaican elaenia
(Myiopagis cotta)b
 <40
 80
 <40
 SLEV
Common ground-dove
(Columbina passerina)b
 <40
 <40
 160
 WNV
Caribbean dove
(Leptotila jamaicensis)b
 <40
 <40
 <40
 Negative
Black-faced grassquit
(Tiaris bicolor)b
 <40
 <40
 320
 WNV
Jamaican vireo
(Vireo modestus)b
 <40
 <40
 80
 WNV
Manchester Parish (site 1), Jamaica
 Caribbean dove
(Leptotila jamaicensis)b
 <40
 <40
 80
 WNV
Manchester Parish (site 2), Jamaica
 Black-faced grassquit
(Tiaris bicolor)b
 <40
 <40
 160
 WNV
Jamaican oriole
(Icterus leucopteryx)b
 <40
 160
 >1,280
 WNV
White-eyed thrush
(Turdus jamaicensis)b
 <40
 <40
 320
 WNV
Orangequit
(Euneornis campestris)b
 <40
 <40
 40
 Flavivirus
St. Catherine Parish, Jamaica
 Greater Antillean grackle
(Quiscalus niger)b
 40
 160
 160
 Flavivirus
Loggerhead kingbird
(Tyrannus caudifasciatus)b
 80
 320
 320
 Flavivirus
Golden warbler
(Dendroica petechia sp. )c
 <40
 80
 <40
 SLEV
Northern waterthrush
(Seiurus noveboracensis)d
 <40
 40
 320
 WNV
Yucatan State, Mexico
 Caribbean dove
(Leptotila jamaicensis)b
 <40
 >=1280
 80
 SLEV
Yellow warbler
(Dendroica petechia)d
 <40
 40
 320
 WNV
Roosevelt Roads Naval Station, Puerto Rico Prairie warbler
(Dendroica discolor)d
 <40
 <40
 <40
 Negative
Golden warbler
(Dendroica petechia sp. )c
 <40
 <40
 <40
 Negative
Pearly-eyed thrasher
(Margarops fuscatus)b
 <40
 <40
 <40
 Negative
Caribbean elaenia
(Elaenia martinica)b
 <40
 80
 <40
 SLEV
Black and white warbler
(Mniotilta varia)c <40 40 >1,280 WNV

aILHV, Ilhéus virus; SLEV, St. Louis encephalitis virus; WNV, West Nile virus.
bResident bird.
cResident yellow warbler subspecies.
dMigrant bird.

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