First outbreak of west nile virus neuroinvasive disease in humans, Croatia, 2012

Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 82-84

  Pem Novosel, Iva ^a   Vilibic Cavlek, Tatjana ^a,d   Gjenero Margan, Ira ^a   Pandak, Nenad ^b   Peric, Ljiljana ^c   Barbic, Ljubo ^d   Listes, Eddy ^e   Cvitkovic, Ante ^f   Stevanovic, Vladimir ^d   Savini, Giovanni ^g  

^a CROATIAN NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Croatia)

^b DR JOSIP BEN EVI GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Croatia)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OSIJEK   (Croatia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^e CROATIAN VETERINARY INSTITUTE   (Croatia)

^f Inst Pub Hlth Brod Posavina Co   (Croatia)

^g OIE Reference Laboratory for Bluetongue Istituto G Caporale Teramo   (Italy)

Author keywords

Outbreak Croatia; West Nile virus

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASYMPTOMATIC INFECTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFUSION; CROATIA; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPIDEMIC; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; FEMALE; FLACCID PARALYSIS; HEADACHE; HORSE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MALE; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; MIDDLE AGED; MYALGIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTLESSNESS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEASON; TREMOR; VIRUS DIAGNOSIS; VIRUS ENCEPHALITIS; VIRUS NEUTRALIZATION; VIRUS PLAQUE; VOMITING; WEST NILE FEVER; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS; ANIMAL; BLOOD; COMPLICATION; GENETICS; HORSE DISEASES; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PARALYSIS; SERODIAGNOSIS; VIROLOGY;

AGED; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; CROATIA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; MALE; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; MIDDLE AGED; NEUTRALIZATION TESTS; PARALYSIS; SEASONS; WEST NILE FEVER; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 84891702959     PISSN: 15303667     EISSN: 15577759     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/vbz.2012.1295     Document Type: Article

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