St. Louis encephalitis in Argentina: The first case reported in the last seventeen years [2]

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 271-273

  Spinsanti, Lorena ^a   Basquiera, Ana L ^b   Bulacio, Sebastián ^c   Somale, Verónica ^b   Kim, Stefano C H ^b   Ré, Viviana ^a   Rabbat, Damián ^c   Zárate, Abel ^b   Zlocowski, Juan C ^b   Mayor, Carlos Quiroga ^c   Contigiani, Marta ^a   Palacio, Santiago ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CÓRDOBA   (Argentina)

^b HOSPITAL PRIVADO   (Argentina)

^c Ins de Radiologia Conci Carpinella   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARGENTINA; BIRD; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CULEX; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC ENCEPHALITIS; FLAVIVIRUS; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; SEROPREVALENCE; VIRUS ISOLATION;

ANIMALS; ARGENTINA; CHICKENS; COLUMBIDAE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS, ST. LOUIS; ENCEPHALITIS, ST. LOUIS; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MIDDLE AGED; SONGBIRDS;

EID: 0345505688     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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