West Nile encephalitis epidemic in southeastern Romania

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Volumn 352, Issue 9130, 1998, Pages 767-771

  Tsai, T F ^a   Popovici, F ^b   Cernescu, C ^c   Campbell, G L ^d   Nedelcu, N I ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b Bucharest Preventive Medicine Centre   (Romania)

^c Institute of Virology   (Romania)

^d Ministry of Health   (Romania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; VIRUS ANTIBODY; VIRUS VECTOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASEPTIC MENINGITIS; CHILD; CITY; CULEX PIPIENS; EPIDEMIC; FATALITY; FOWL; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROMANIA; SCHOOL CHILD; SEROPREVALENCE; VIRUS ENCEPHALITIS;

EID: 0032487085     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(98)03538-7     Document Type: Article

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