Epidemic of meningitis and meningoencephalitis in the Krasnodar territory and Volgograd region caused by West Nile virus (preliminary report)

Voprosy Virusologii

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 37-38

  Lvov, D K ^a   Butenko, A M ^a   Gaidamovich, S Ya ^a   Larichev, V F ^a   Leschinskaya, Ye V ^a   Zhukov, A N ^a   Lazorenko, V V ^a   Alyushin, A M ^a   Petrov, V R ^a   Trikhanov, S T ^a   Khutoretskaya, N V ^a   Shishkina, Ye O ^a   Yashkov, A B ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Outbreak; Southern Russia; West Nile fever

Indexed keywords

VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; BLOOD; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; INCIDENCE; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; PATHOGENICITY; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; VIROLOGY; VIRUS MENINGITIS; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS;

ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; INCIDENCE; MENINGITIS, VIRAL; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; RUSSIA; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 0033629432     PISSN: 05074088     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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