Identification of tick-borne encephalitis virus in ticks collected in southeastern Hungary

Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 427-431

  Pintér, Réka ^a   Madai, Mónika ^a   Vadkerti, Edit ^a   Németh, Viktória ^a   Oldal, Miklós ^a   Kemenesi, Gábor ^a   Dallos, Bianka ^a   Gyuranecz, Miklós ^b   Kiss, Gábor ^c   Bányai, Krisztián ^b   Jakab, Ferenc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PÉCS   (Hungary)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Hungary; Ixodes ricinus; Prevalence; RT PCR; Tick borne encephalitis virus

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC RNA; NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEIN 1; VIRUS RNA;

AMPLICON; ARTICLE; DERMACENTOR MARGINATUS; HAEMAPHYSALIS CONCINNA; HUNGARY; IXODES RICINUS; LARVA; NONHUMAN; NYMPH; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PHYLOGENY; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TICK; TICK BITE; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS FLAVIVIRUS; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; VIRUS VIRULENCE; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; DERMACENTOR; ENCEPHALITIS, TICK-BORNE; FEMALE; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; IXODES; IXODIDAE; MALE; PARASITE VECTOR; PREVALENCE; SEASON; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS; VIROLOGY;

ARBOVIRUS; ARTHROPODA; DERMACENTOR MARGINATUS; HAEMAPHYSALIS CONCINNA; IXODES RICINUS; IXODIDA; MAMMALIA; RODENTIA; TICK-BORNE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS;

ANIMALS; ARACHNID VECTORS; DERMACENTOR; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUSES, TICK-BORNE; ENCEPHALITIS, TICK-BORNE; FEMALE; HUMANS; HUNGARY; IXODES; IXODIDAE; LARVA; MALE; NYMPH; PHYLOGENY; PREVALENCE; RNA, VIRAL; SEASONS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA;

EID: 84883246559     PISSN: 1877959X     EISSN: 18779603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2013.04.008     Document Type: Article

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