Sandfly fever virus outbreak in Cyprus

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 192-194

  Papa, Anna ^a   Konstantinou, G ^a   Pavlidou, V ^a   Antoniadis, A ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cyprus; Genetic detection; Phlebovirus; Sandfly fever virus; Virus isolation

Indexed keywords

RNA;

ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BUNYAVIRUS; CLIMATE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CYPRUS; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE DURATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIDEMIC; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHLEBOVIRUS; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA VIRUS INFECTION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEROLOGY; SEROTYPE; SOLDIER; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS STRAIN;

ORTHOBUNYAVIRUS; PHLEBOVIRUS; RNA VIRUSES; SANDFLY FEVER SICILIAN VIRUS;

EID: 33644890769     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2005.01330.x     Document Type: Article

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