West Nile virus past infections in the general population of Southern Spain

Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiologia Clinica

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 561-565

  Bernabeu Wittel, Máximo ^a   Ruiz Pérez, Maite ^a   Del Toro, María Dolores ^b   Aznar, Javier ^a   Muniain, Ángel ^b   De Ory, Fernando ^c   Domingo, Cristina ^c   Pachón, Jerónimo ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN DEL ROCÍO   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN MACARENA   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

Author keywords

Flavivirus; Seroprevalence studies; Spain; West Nile virus

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PLAQUE REDUCTION NEUTRALIZATION TEST; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; RURAL AREA; SEROPREVALENCE; SPAIN; URBAN AREA; VIRUS INFECTION; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS;

EID: 35948988880     PISSN: 0213005X     EISSN: 15781852     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1157/13111181     Document Type: Article

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