Epidemic West Nile encephalitis in Romania waiting for history to repeat itself

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 951, Issue , 2001, Pages 94-101

  Campbell, Grant L ^a,c   Ceianu, Cornelia S ^b   Savage, Harry M ^a  

^a NATL CENTER FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b CANTACUZINO INSTITUTE   (Romania)

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

Author keywords

Culex pipiens; Encephalitis; Epidemiology; Flavivirus; Meningitis; Meningoencephalitis; Romania; West Nile fever; West Nile virus

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BIRD; CHILD; CONFERENCE PAPER; CULEX PIPIENS; ECOLOGY; EPIDEMIC; FATALITY; FEMALE; FOWL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POVERTY; ROMANIA; SEROPREVALENCE; URBAN AREA; VIRUS ENCEPHALITIS; VIRUS MENINGITIS; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WEATHER; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS;

AVES; CULEX PIPIENS; CULEX PIPIENS PIPIENS; FLAVIVIRUS; GALLIFORMES; RNA VIRUSES; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 0035680518     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2001.tb02688.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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