Authors' reply: diagnostic challenges to be considered regarding Zika virus in the context of the presence of the vector Aedes albopictus in Europe.
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G Venturi 1 , L Zammarchi 2 3 , C Fortuna 1 , ME Remoli 1 , E Benedetti 1 , C Fiorentini 1 , M Trotta 3 , C Rizzo 4 , A Mantella 2 , G Rezza 1 , A Bartoloni 2 3 1. Department of Infectious, Parasitic and Immune-Mediate Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy 2. Clinica Malattie Infettive, Dipartimento di Medicina Sperimentale e Clinica, Università Degli Studi di Firenze, Florence, Italy 3. SOD Malattie Infettive e Tropicali, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Caeggi, Florence, Italy 4. National Center for Epidemiology and Health Promotion, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin
دوره 21 10 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2016