Le infezioni in medicina.
Publisher:
Elsèv edizioni mediche. Pavia, Italy : Edizioni Internazionali srl
Frequency: Quarterly
Country: Italy
Language: English
Author(s):
II Università degli studi di Napoli, facoltà di medicina, Istituto malattie infettive., Società italiana di malattie infettive e tropicali.
Start Year:1993 -
Identifiers
| ISSN: | 1124-9390 (Print) 2532-8689 (Electronic) 1124-9390 (Linking) |
| NLM ID: | 9613961 |
| (DNLM): | SR0088201(s) |
| (OCoLC): | 37941714 |
| Coden: | INMEFK |
| LCCN: | sn97-40232 |
| Classification: | W1 IN408S |
West Nile Virus diffusion in temperate regions and climate change. A systematic review. West Nile virus (WNV) is a member of the Japanese encephalitis serocomplex, which was first described in 1937 as neurotropic virus in Uganda in 1937. Subsequently, WNV was identified in the rest of the old-world and from 1999 in North America. Birds are the primary hosts, and WNV is maintained in a bird-mosquito-bird cycle, with pigs as amplifying hosts and humans and horses as incidental hosts. WNV transmission is warranted by mosquitoes, usually of the spp., with a tendency to spill over when mosquitoes' populations build up. Other types of transmissions have been described in endemic areas...