Emergence of usutu virus in Hungary

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 45, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 3870-3874

  Bakonyi, Tamás ^a,b   Erdélyi, Károly ^c   Ursu, Krisztina ^c   Ferenczi, Emoke ^d   Csörgo, Tibor ^e   Lussy, Helga ^b   Chvala, Sonja ^b   Bukovsky, Christiane ^b   Meister, Tanja ^b   Weissenböck, Herbert ^b   Nowotny, Norbert ^b  

^a SZENT ISTVÁN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

^c CENTRAL VETERINARY INSTITUTE   (Hungary)

^d NATIONAL CENTER FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Hungary)

^e EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; BIRD; BLACKBIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLAVIVIRUS; GENE SEQUENCE; HUNGARY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; USUTU FLAVIVIRUS; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS STRAIN;

ANIMALS; BIRD DISEASES; BRAIN; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; FLAVIVIRUS; FLAVIVIRUS INFECTIONS; HEART; HUNGARY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LIVER; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYOCARDIUM; PASSERIFORMES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AVES; FLAVIVIRUS; JAPANESE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS; TURDUS MERULA; USUTU VIRUS; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 37249084631     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01390-07     Document Type: Article

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