Emergence and co-infections of West Nile virus and Toscana virus in Eastern Thrace, Turkey

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 319-325

  Erdem, H ^a   Ergunay, K ^b   Yilmaz, A ^c   Naz, H ^d   Akata, F ^e   Inan, A S ^a   Ulcay, A ^a   Gunay, F ^b   Ozkul, A ^f   Alten, B ^b   Turhan, V ^a   Oncul, O ^a   Gorenek, L ^a  

^a GATA HAYDARPASA TRAINING HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

^b HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c Pediatric Endocrinology Private Practice   (Turkey)

^d Clinic of Cardiology Çerkezköy State Hospital   (Turkey)

^e TRAKYA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^f ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Thrace; Toscana virus; TOSV; Turkey; West Nile virus; WNV

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALBUMIN; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CREATINE KINASE; CREATININE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN; VIRUS RNA;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; AGED; ANOREXIA; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD DONOR; BUNYAVIRUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DECREASED APPETITE; DIARRHEA; EYE PAIN; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FEVER; HEADACHE; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LEUKOPENIA; LOW BACK PAIN; MALAISE; MALE; MIXED INFECTION; MUSCLE RIGIDITY; MYALGIA; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SANDFLY FEVER; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGY; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TOSCANA VIRUS; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); VIRUS STRAIN; WEST NILE FEVER; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS;

TOSCANA VIRUS; WEST NILE VIRUS;

THRACE; TOSCANA VIRUS; TOSV; TURKEY; WEST NILE VIRUS; WNV;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; BUNYAVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; COINFECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA, VIRAL; SANDFLY FEVER NAPLES VIRUS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TURKEY; WEST NILE FEVER; WEST NILE VIRUS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84895928438     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1469-0691.12310     Document Type: Article

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