Patterns of tick-borne encephalitis virus infection in rodents in Slovenia

Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 236-242

  Knap, Nataša ^a   Korva, Miša ^a   Dolinšek, Vesna ^a   Sekirnik, Mojca ^a   Trilar, Tomi ^b   Avšič Županc, Tatjana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b SLOVENIAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Real time RT PCR; Rodents; Serology; Surveillance; Tick borne encephalitis

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; VIRUS RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIBODY TITER; APODEMUS AGRARIUS; APODEMUS FLAVICOLLIS; APODEMUS SYLVATICUS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; MALE; MOUSE; MYODES GLAREOLUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RODENT; SERODIAGNOSIS; SLOVENIA; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS FLAVIVIRUS; VIRUS LOAD;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; ARVICOLINAE; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUSES, TICK-BORNE; ENCEPHALITIS, TICK-BORNE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MURINAE; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PREVALENCE; RNA, VIRAL; RODENT DISEASES; SLOVENIA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TICKS; VIRAL LOAD;

APODEMUS AGRARIUS; APODEMUS FLAVICOLLIS; APODEMUS SYLVATICUS; CLETHRIONOMYS GLAREOLUS; IXODIDA; MUS; RODENTIA; TICK-BORNE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS;

EID: 84859793236     PISSN: 15303667     EISSN: 15577759     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/vbz.2011.0728     Document Type: Article

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