Entomologic and avian investigations of an epidemic of West Nile fever in Romania in 1996, with serologic and molecular characterization of a virus isolate from mosquitoes

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 600-611

  Savage, H M ^a   Ceianu, C ^b   Nicolescu, G ^b   Karabatsos, N ^a   Lanciotti, R ^a   Vladimirescu, A ^b   Laiv, L ^c   Ungureanu, A ^d   Romanca, C ^e   Tsai, T F ^a  

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

^b CANTACUZINO INSTITUTE   (Romania)

^c Romanian Ornithological Center   (Romania)

^d Army Center of Medical Research   (Romania)

^e Bucharest Preventive Medicine Centre   (Romania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHICKEN; CULEX PIPIENS; DUCK; GOOSE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; ROMANIA; TURKEY (BIRD); VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS ISOLATION; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS;

ANAS; ANAS SP.; ANSER SP.; AVES; CULEX PIPIENS; CULEX PIPIENS PIPIENS; ERITHACUS RUBECULA; FLAVIVIRUS; GALLIFORMES; GALLUS GALLUS; KUNJIN VIRUS; MARTES PENNANTI; MELEAGRIS GALLOPAVO; PASSERIFORMES; RNA VIRUSES;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; BASE SEQUENCE; BIRD DISEASES; CHICKENS; CULICIDAE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, VIRAL; DUCKS; FEMALE; GEESE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; PHYLOGENY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; ROMANIA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; TURKEYS; WEST NILE FEVER; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 0032700765     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.1999.61.600     Document Type: Article

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