Prevalence of tick-borne encephalitis virus in Ixodes ricinus ticks in Finland

Journal of Medical Virology

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 21-28

  Han, Xiuqi ^a   Aho, Mika ^b   Vene, Sirkka ^c   Peltomaa, Miikka ^d   Vaheri, Antti ^a   Vapalahti, Olli ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c SWEDISH INSTITUTE FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASE CONTROL   (Sweden)

^d HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

Epidemiological surveillance; Flavivirus; RT PCR

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FINLAND; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; INCIDENCE; IXODES RICINUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREVALENCE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS FLAVIVIRUS; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS LOAD;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUSES, TICK-BORNE; ENCEPHALITIS, TICK-BORNE; ENDEMIC DISEASES; FINLAND; HUMANS; IXODES; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PREVALENCE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VIRAL LOAD; VIRAL NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEINS; VIRUS REPLICATION;

ACARI; FLAVIVIRUS; IXODES RICINUS; TICK-BORNE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS;

EID: 0035083527     PISSN: 01466615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmv.1012     Document Type: Article

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