West Nile virus outbreak in humans, Greece, 2012: third consecutive year of local transmission.
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D Pervanidou ([email protected])1,2, M Detsis1, K Danis1,2, K Mellou1, E Papanikolaou1, I Terzaki1, A Baka1, L Veneti1, A Vakali1, G Dougas1, C Politis1, K Stamoulis3, S Tsiodras1,4, T Georgakopoulou1, A Papa5, A Tsakris4, J Kremastinou1, C Hadjichristodoulou1,6 1. Hellenic Center for Disease Control & Prevention, Athens, Greece 2. European Programme in Intervention Epidemiology Training (EPIET), European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Stockholm, Sweden 3. Hellenic National Blood Centre, Athens, Greece 4. Medical Faculty, University of Athens, Athens, Greece 5. Medical Faculty, University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece 6. Medical Faculty, University of Thessaly, Larisa, Greece
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin
دوره 19 13 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2014