Seroprevalence of Toscana virus among residents of Aegean Sea islands, Greece

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 98-102

  Anagnostou, Vassiliki ^a   Papa, Anna ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Aegean Sea; Greece; Islands; Seroprevalence; Toscana virus

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CROSS REACTION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GENDER; GREECE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHLEBOVIRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHODIDAE; RESIDENT; SEROPREVALENCE; SUMMER; TOSCANA VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHLEBOTOMUS FEVER; SANDFLY FEVER NAPLES VIRUS; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES;

EID: 84876760936     PISSN: 14778939     EISSN: 18730442     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2012.11.006     Document Type: Article

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