Silent circulation of St. Louis encephalitis virus prior to an encephalitis outbreak in Cordoba, Argentina (2005)

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Díaz, Luis Adrian ^a,b   Llinás, Guillermo ^a   Vázquez, Ana ^c   Tenorio, Antonio ^c   Contigiani, Marta Silvia ^a  

^a FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS MÉDICAS   (Argentina)

^b Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

^c INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; EPIDEMIC; GENOTYPE; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ST LOUIS FLAVIVIRUS; ST. LOUIS ENCEPHALITIS; VIRUS CHARACTERIZATION; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS STRAIN; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; VIROLOGY;

VIRUS RNA;

ANIMALS; ARGENTINA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CULICIDAE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS, ST. LOUIS; ENCEPHALITIS, ST. LOUIS; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84856560484     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0001489     Document Type: Article

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