Usutu virus - Potential risk of human disease in Europe

Eurosurveillance

Volumn 16, Issue 31, 2011, Pages

  Vazquez A ^a   Jimenez Clavero M A ^b   Franco, L ^a,c   Donoso Mantke, O ^c,d   Sambri, V ^c,e   Niedrig, M ^c,d   Zeller, H ^f   Tenorio, A ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

^b INIA   (Spain)

^c European Network for Diagnostics of Imported Viral Diseases Collaborative Lab Response Network   (Spain)

^d ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^f EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR DISEASE PREVENTION AND CONTROL ECDC   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY;

ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CULEX PIPIENS; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EUROPE; FLAVIVIRUS; FLAVIVIRUS INFECTION; HORSE; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RISK; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; MIGRANT BIRD; NONHUMAN; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; SERODIAGNOSIS; USUTU FLAVIVIRUS; USUTU VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS CARRIER; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

EID: 80051806509     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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