Outbreak of west Nile virus infection among humans in Serbia, August to October 2012

Eurosurveillance

Volumn 18, Issue 43, 2013, Pages

  Popovic N ^a   Milosevic B ^a,b   Urosevic A ^a   Poluga, J ^a,b   Lavadinovic L ^a,b   Nedelijkovic J ^c   Jevtović, Dj ^a,b   Dulovic O ^a,b  

^a CLINICAL CENTER OF SERBIA   (Serbia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^c Inst of Immunol and Virol Torlak   (Serbia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; ATAXIA; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; CULEX PIPIENS; DEATH; DIABETES MELLITUS; DYSMETRIA; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; FLACCID PARALYSIS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SERBIA; VIRUS ENCEPHALITIS; VIRUS MENINGITIS; WEST NILE FEVER; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS;

EID: 84886651899     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES2013.18.43.20613     Document Type: Article

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