European subtype tick-borne encephalitis virus in ixodes persulcatus ticks

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 323-325

  Jääskeläinen, Anu E ^a   Tonteri, Elina ^a   Sionen, Tarja ^a   Pakarinen, Laura ^b   Vaheri, Antti ^a,c   Vapalahti, Olli ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^c HOSPITAL DISTRICT OF HELSINKI AND UUSIMAA   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEIN 3; VIRUS RNA;

CONTROLLED STUDY; FLAVIVIRUS INFECTION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; IXODES PERSULCATUS; LETTER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; RODENT; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS FLAVIVIRUS; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPOD VECTORS; ARVICOLINAE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUSES, TICK-BORNE; ENCEPHALITIS, TICK-BORNE; FINLAND; HUMANS; IXODES; MICE; PHYLOGENY; PREVALENCE; RNA, VIRAL; RODENT DISEASES;

EID: 79551652959     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1702.101487     Document Type: Letter

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