Detection of West Nile virus lineage 2 in the urine of acute human infections

Journal of Medical Virology

Volumn 86, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 2142-2145

  Papa, Anna ^a   Testa, Theodolinda ^a   Papadopoulou, Elpida ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Greece; Lineage 2; Real time RT PCR; Urine; West Nile virus

Indexed keywords

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

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FLAVIVIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; URINALYSIS; VERY ELDERLY; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS LOAD; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS INFECTION; CLASSIFICATION; EVALUATION STUDY; GENETICS; GREECE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS; PROCEDURES; URINE; VIROLOGY; WEST NILE FEVER; WEST NILE VIRUS; YOUNG ADULT;

WEST NILE VIRUS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; SPECIMEN HANDLING; URINE; WEST NILE FEVER; WEST NILE VIRUS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84911805240     PISSN: 01466615     EISSN: 10969071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmv.23949     Document Type: Article

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