Tick-borne encephalitis associated with consumption of raw goat milk, Slovenia, 2012

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 806-808

  Hudopisk, Neda ^a   Korva, Miša ^b   Janet, Evgen ^a   Simetinger, Marjana ^a   Grgič Vitek, Marta ^c   Gubenšek, Jakob ^d   Natek, Vladimir ^e   Kraigher, Alenka ^c   Strle, Franc ^d   Avšič Županc, Tatjana ^b  

^a Regional Public Health Institute   (Slovenia)

^b Institute of Microbiology and Immunology   (Slovenia)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Slovenia)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^e Regional Hospital Slovenj Gradec   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS VACCINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASEPTIC MENINGITIS; CASE REPORT; CONSCIOUSNESS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FEVER; HEADACHE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LEUKOPENIA; MALAISE; MALE; MILK; MYALGIA; NAUSEA; NONHUMAN; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SERODIAGNOSIS; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS; TREMOR; VACCINATION; VOMITING;

GOAT MILK, RAW GOAT MILK, SLOVENIA; TBEV, TICK-BORNE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS; VIRUSES;

ADULT; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUSES, TICK-BORNE; ENCEPHALITIS, TICK-BORNE; FEMALE; GOATS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MILK; SLOVENIA; VIRAL VACCINES;

EID: 84876762343     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1905.121442     Document Type: Article

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