Tosun, Selma Manisa Devlet Hastanesi - Enfeksiyon Hastalıkları ve Klinik Mikrobiyoloji, Türkiye

West Nile virus infection

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West Nile Virus (WNV) a RNA virus which is named as arbovirus because of infected by arthropodia such as mosquito causes different neurological symptoms in humans, horses, birds and wild animals and reappeared todays. Because WNV infections makes different clinics from silence symptoms to meningitis and encephalitis and even may cause death, it is one of very important infections around the world. In Turkey, it was demonstrated in many serological studies that this virus may place in both humans and animals. The first humans’ signs in Turkey are described in 2010. In this review, we aimed to represent all the current information about WNV.

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West Nile virus , Central nervous system infection , Encephalitis , Arboviruses

Journal Of Experimental an‎d Clinical Medicine

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