West Nile neuroinvasive disease. Report of four cases in Northern Greece, 2018
Autor: | Pantelis Haloudis, Eleni Antoniadi, Konstantinos Notas, Athina Myrou, Apostolos I. Hatzitolios, Evangelia Liougka, Dimitrios Fotiou, Andreas Kiryttopoulos, Magda Tsolaki, Thomas Tegos, Anna Papa, Maria Papaioannou, Ioannis Papagiannis, Martha Spilioti, Chrysanthi Kyriakogianni |
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Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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West Nile virus animal diseases viruses medicine.disease_cause Tertiary Care Centers 03 medical and health sciences Sex Factors 0302 clinical medicine Neuroinvasive disease Virology medicine Humans Encephalitis Viral 030212 general & internal medicine Biochemical markers Aged Greece biology Transmission (medicine) business.industry Age Factors virus diseases Middle Aged medicine.disease biology.organism_classification Meningitis Viral nervous system diseases Flavivirus Infectious Diseases Population Surveillance Etiology Female 030211 gastroenterology & hepatology business Meningitis Biomarkers West Nile Fever Encephalitis |
Zdroj: | Journal of Medical Virology. 92:1322-1325 |
ISSN: | 1096-9071 0146-6615 |
Popis: | West Nile virus (WNV) is a mosquito-borne RNA flavivirus which caused several epidemics worldwide. The year 2018 was a WNV record year for Europe, including Greece, with earlier and longer transmission season with higher than the previous number of cases. It has been proposed that some simple biochemical markers may be helpful for the recognition of WNV neuroinvasive disease, its differential from other neurological infectious diseases and prognosis. We describe four cases that suffered from WNV meningitis and/or encephalitis hospitalized in 2018 in a tertiary hospital in Thessaloniki, Greece, and investigate the importance of simple biomarkers for the recognition of WNV etiology. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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