Toscana virus infections in northern Italy: Laboratory and clinical evaluation

Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 526-529

  Vocale, Caterina ^a   Bartoletti, Michele ^b   Rossini, Giada ^a   Macini, Pierluigi ^c   Pascucci, Maria Grazia ^c   Mori, Fernanda ^d   Tampieri, Andrea ^e   Lenzi, Tiziano ^e   Pavoni, Michele ^f   Giorgi, Claudia ^g   Gaibani, Paolo ^a   Cavrini, Francesca ^a   Pierro, Anna Maria ^a   Landini, Maria Paola ^a   Viale, Pierluigi ^b   Sambri, Vittorio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c Public Health Service   (Italy)

^d OSPEDALE DEGLI INFERMI   (Italy)

^e Emergency Department   (Italy)

^f AUSL Ravenna   (Italy)

^g Unit of Neurologic Disease   (Italy)

Author keywords

Infection; northern Italy; Toscana virus

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASEPTIC MENINGITIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; ITALY; LABORATORY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; NONHUMAN; PHLEBOVIRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROLOGY; SUMMER; SYMPTOM; TOSCANA VIRUS; TOSCANA VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BUNYAVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; MENINGITIS, VIRAL; MIDDLE AGED; SANDFLY FEVER NAPLES VIRUS;

EID: 84862220343     PISSN: 15303667     EISSN: 15577759     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/vbz.2011.0781     Document Type: Article

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