Prevalence of antibodies to West Nile fever, sandfly fever Sicilian, and sandfly fever Naples viruses in healthy adults in Israel

Public Health Reviews

Volumn 27, Issue 1-3, 1999, Pages 217-230

  Cohen, Dani ^a,b,d   Zaide, Yona ^a   Karasenty, Erik ^a   Schwarz, Mikael ^a   LeDuc, James W ^c   Slepon, Raphael ^a   Ksiazek, Thomas G ^c   Shemer, Joshua ^a,b   Green, Manfred S ^a,b  

^a MEDICAL CORPS   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^d Military Post   (Israel)

Author keywords

Arboviruses; Sandfly fever viruses; Seroprevalence; West Nile virus

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARBOVIRUS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; HUMAN; ISRAEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA VIRUS INFECTION; SEROPREVALENCE; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISRAEL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHLEBOTOMUS FEVER; PHLEBOVIRUS; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; WEST NILE FEVER; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 0033499294     PISSN: 03010422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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