West Nile virus in Europe: understanding the present to gauge the future.
The appearance of West Nile virus in New York in 1999 and the unprecedented panzootic that followed, have stimulated a major research effort in the western hemisphere and a new interest in the presence of this virus in the Old World. This review considers current understanding of the natural history of this pathogen, with particular regard to transmission in Europe.
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Insects and Infectious Disease Unit, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France. paul.reiter@pasteur.fr
D005060:Europe / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D014901:West Nile Fever / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000635:transmission; D014902:West Nile virus