High prevalence of antibodies to lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus in a murine typhus endemic region in Croatia

Journal of Medical Virology

Volumn 78, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1643-1647

  Dobec, Marinko ^a   Dzelalija, Boris ^b   Punda Polic, Volga ^b   Zoric, Ivan ^c  

^a Medica   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SPLIT   (Croatia)

^c JOSIP JURAJ STROSSMAYER UNIVERSITY OF OSIJEK   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Croatia; Endemic region; Lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus (LCMV); Rickettsia typhi; Seroprevalence

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENT FIXING ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPLEMENT FIXATION TEST; CONGENITAL HYPOTHYROIDISM; CROATIA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FLU LIKE SYNDROME; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; ISLAND (GEOLOGICAL); LYMPHOCYTIC CHORIOMENINGITIS VIRUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOUSE; MURINE TYPHUS; NONHUMAN; POPULATION RESEARCH; REINFECTION; RURAL AREA; SEASHORE; TYPHUS; VIRUS INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; CHILD; CROATIA; ENDEMIC DISEASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHOCYTIC CHORIOMENINGITIS; LYMPHOCYTIC CHORIOMENINGITIS VIRUS; MALE; MICE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; TYPHUS, ENDEMIC FLEA-BORNE;

LYMPHOCYTIC CHORIOMENINGITIS VIRUS; MURINAE; RICKETTSIA TYPHI; VIR;

EID: 33750561668     PISSN: 01466615     EISSN: 10969071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmv.20749     Document Type: Article

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