West nile virus outbreak in humans, Greece, 2012: Third consecutive year of local transmission

Eurosurveillance

Volumn 19, Issue 13, 2014, Pages

  Pervanidou, D ^a,b   Detsis, M ^a   Danis, K ^a,b   Mellou, K ^a   Papanikolaou, E ^a   Terzaki, I ^a   Baka, A ^a   Veneti, L ^a   Vakali, A ^a   Dougas, G ^a   Politis, C ^a   Stamoulis, K ^c   Tsiodras, S ^a,d   Georgakopoulou, T ^a   Papa, A ^e   Tsakris, A ^d   Kremastinou, J ^a   Hadjichristodoulou, C ^a,f  

^a Hellenic Center for Disease Control and Prevention   (Greece)

^b EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR DISEASE PREVENTION AND CONTROL ECDC   (Sweden)

^c Transfusion Centre   (Greece)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^e ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^f UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; VIRUS RNA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAFETY; BLOOD TRANSFUSION REACTION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CHILD; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPIDEMIC; FATALITY; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGITIS; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TELEPHONE INTERVIEW; VERY ELDERLY; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WEST NILE FEVER; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS; WEST NILE NEUROINVASIVE DISEASE; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; CHILD; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RNA, VIRAL; SEX DISTRIBUTION; WEST NILE FEVER; WEST NILE VIRUS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84898722020     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES2014.19.13.20758     Document Type: Article

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