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Detection of Infectious Virus from Field-collected Mosquitoes by Vero Cell Culture Assay
Published on: June 9, 2011
[West Nile virus infections in children]
G Guyon1, S Ladet, M Maestracci
1Service des Urgences Pédiatriques, Hôpital Lapeyronie, CHU montpellier. g-guyon@chu-montpellier.fr
Abstract:
West Nile Virus infection is an arbovirosis accidentally transmitted to humans from an aviary reservoir via an infected mosquito. Though a French surveillance network set up in 2001 reports low circulation in France, the virus is endemic in other territories. Approximately 80% of infected children remain asymptomatic, fever is seen in 20%, and very few develop a severe neurological disease in the patient's blood or spinal fluid. Treatment remains essentially symptomatic though new specific antiviral treatments and human immunization are currently being developed.
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