Tick-borne encephalitis outbreak in Hungary due to consumption of raw goat milk

Journal of Virological Methods

Volumn 163, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 481-485

  Balogh, Zsuzsanna ^a   Ferenczi, Emoke ^a,d   Szeles, Klara ^b   Stefanoff, Pawel ^c   Gut, Wlodzimierz ^c   Szomor, Katalin N ^a   Takacs, Maria ^a   Berencsi, Gyorgy ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Hungary)

^b Western Transdanubian Regional Institute   (Hungary)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HYGIENE   (Poland)

^d INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Competitive ELISA; Goat; Milk; Tick borne encephalitis

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; GOAT; HEMAGGLUTINATION INHIBITION TEST; HUMAN; HUNGARY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MILK; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS; VIRUS NEUTRALIZATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, NEUTRALIZING; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENCEPHALITIS, TICK-BORNE; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; FOODBORNE DISEASES; GOATS; HEMAGGLUTINATION INHIBITION TESTS; HUMANS; HUNGARY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; MALE; MILK; NEUTRALIZATION TESTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SERUM;

CAPRA HIRCUS; IXODIDA; TICK-BORNE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS;

EID: 73149110372     PISSN: 01660934     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jviromet.2009.10.003     Document Type: Article

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