The traveller and West Nile virus

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 149-152

  Zuckerman, Jane N ^a  

^a ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Asymptomatic illness; Birds; Encephalitis; Mosquitoes; Neurological illness; West Nile virus

Indexed keywords

BLOOD TRANSFUSION; FEVER; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; INSECT BITE; MOSQUITO; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; ORGAN DONOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; PUBLIC HEALTH; REVIEW; SYMPTOM; TRAVEL; VACCINATION; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS; ZOONOSIS;

EID: 15944366171     PISSN: 14778939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1477-8939(03)00064-4     Document Type: Review

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