Usutu virus, Italy, 1996

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 274-277

  Weissenböck, Herbert ^a   Bakonyi, Tamás ^a,b   Rossi, Giacomo ^c   Mani, Paolo ^d   Nowotny, Norbert ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

^b SZENT ISTVÁN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMERINO   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^e SULTAN QABOOS UNIVERSITY   (Oman)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIRD; DEATH; FLAVIVIRUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; ITALY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; USUTU FLAVIVIRUS; USUTU VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS STRAIN;

ANIMALS; BIRD DISEASES; BRAIN; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUSES, JAPANESE; ENCEPHALITIS, ARBOVIRUS; FLAVIVIRUS INFECTIONS; ITALY; MOLECULAR TYPING; PHYLOGENY; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RNA, VIRAL; SONGBIRDS;

EID: 84930485255     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1902.121191     Document Type: Article

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