A case of tick-borne encephalitis in Japan and isolation of the virus

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 1943-1947

  Takashima, Ikuo ^a   Morita, Kouichi ^c,e   Chiba, Misako ^a   Hayasaka, Daisuke ^a   Sato, Tatsuro ^d   Takezawa, Chikako ^d   Igarashi, Akira ^c   Kariwa, Hiroaki ^a   Yoshimatsu, Kumiko ^b   Arikawa, Jiro ^b   Hashimoto, Nobuo ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d Hakodate Medical Association Hospital   (Japan)

^e WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DOG; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEROLOGY; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS FLAVIVIRUS; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS NEUTRALIZATION;

ACARI; ANIMALIA; CANIS FAMILIARIS; FLAVIVIRUS; RUSSIAN SPRING-SUMMER ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS; TICK-BORNE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS;

EID: 0030792888     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.35.8.1943-1947.1997     Document Type: Article

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