Outbreak of West Nile virus infection in humans, Romania, July to October 2010

Eurosurveillance

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Sribu, A ^a   Ceianu, C S ^b   Panculescu Gatej, R I ^b   Vazquez A ^c   Tenorio, A ^c   Rebreanu, R ^d   Niedrig, M ^e   Nicolescu, G ^b   Pistol, A ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Romania)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN MICROTECHNOLOGIES   (Romania)

^c INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

^d National Institute of Public Health   (Romania)

^e ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BRUDZINSKI SIGN; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMA; CONFUSION; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DISORIENTATION; ENCEPHALITIS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; FEVER; FLAVIVIRUS INFECTION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; KERNIG SIGN; MACULOPAPULAR RASH; MALE; MENINGITIS; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; MORTALITY; MUSCLE STIFFNESS; MYALGIA; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOTOPHOBIA; PUBLIC HEALTH; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ROMANIA; SEX RATIO; SHIVERING; STIFF NECK; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS STRAIN; VOMITING; WEST NILE FEVER; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS;

EID: 78951489050     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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