Current opinion in investigational drugs.
Discontinued
Publisher:
Published by PharmaPress Ltd in association with Current Drugs Ltd,. London : Thomson Reuters (Scientific) Ltd
Frequency: Monthly
Country: England
Language: English
Start Year:2000 - 2010
Identifiers
| ISSN: | 1472-4472 (Print) 2040-3429 (Electronic) 1472-4472 (Linking) |
| NLM ID: | 100965718 |
| (OCoLC): | 45320106 |
| Coden: | COIDAZ |
| LCCN: | 00243516 |
| Classification: | W1 CU799GEJ |
West Nile Virus: is a vaccine needed? West Nile virus (WNV) is a neurotropic Flavivirus that was associated with sporadic outbreaks of meningoencephalitis in Africa and the Middle East until 1999, when a more virulent strain emerged in the US that caused thousands of infections among humans and horses, with reported fatality rates between 10 and 50%. Although the epidemiology of WNV is changing into a more endemic pattern in the US, and the incidence of neuroinvasive disease is decreasing, the long-term effects of resolved WNV infections in humans, characterized as persistent movement disorders and various functional disabilities,...