West nile virus surveillance in humans and mosquitoes and detection of cell fusing agent virus in Vojvodina province (Serbia)

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Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 462-468

  Petric, Dusan ^a   Cvjetkovic, Ivana Hrnjakovic ^b   Radovanov, Jelena ^b   Cvjetkovic, Dejan ^c   Patic, Vera Jerant ^b   Milosevic, Vesna ^b   Gordana, Kovacevic ^b   Zgomba, Marija ^a   Cupina, Aleksandra Ignjatovic ^a   Konjevic, Aleksandra ^a   Dusan, Marinkovic ^a   Sánchez Seco, Ma Paz ^d  

^a Horticulture and Landscape Architecture   (Serbia)

^b Institute of Public Health of Vojvodina   (Serbia)

^c Clinic for infectious diseases   (Serbia)

^d INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cell Fusing Agent Virus (CFAV); Mosquitoes; Seroprevalence; West Nile Virus (WNV)

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; VIRUS RNA;

ADULT; AEDES; AEDES VEXANS; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CELL FUSING AGENT VIRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULEX PIPIENS; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; ENCEPHALITIS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SEQUENCE; SERBIA; VERO CELL; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS MENINGITIS; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS;

EID: 84857718307     PISSN: 18402291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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