West Nile virus in Europe: Understanding the present to gauge the future

Eurosurveillance

Volumn 15, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 4-10

  Reiter, P ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EUROPE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MIGRATION; MORTALITY; MOSQUITO; MOUTH INFECTION; NONHUMAN; PATHOGEN LOAD; PATHOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; SEROPREVALENCE; ST LOUIS FLAVIVIRUS; VECTOR CONTROL; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WEST NILE FEVER; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS;

EID: 77952527021     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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