St. Louis Encephalitis

22 p.

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Main Authors: Díaz, Luis Adrián, Spinsanti, Lorena Ivana, Contigiani, Marta Silvia
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Language:eng
Published: 2022
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11086/28490
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spelling rdu-unc.284902022-09-29T13:25:13Z St. Louis Encephalitis Díaz, Luis Adrián Spinsanti, Lorena Ivana Contigiani, Marta Silvia Encefalitis de San Luis Encephalitis, St. Louis Encephalitis Encefalitis 22 p. Fil: Díaz, Luis Adrián. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Ciencias Médicas. Instituto de Virología "Dr. José María Vanella"; Argentina. Fil: Contigiani, Marta Silvia. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Ciencias Médicas. Instituto de Virología "Dr. José María Vanella"; Argentina. Fil: Spinsanti, Lorena Ivana. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Ciencias Médicas. Instituto de Virología "Dr. José María Vanella"; Argentina. St. Louis encephalitis virus (SLEV) was isolated for the first time during a human encephalitis outbreak in St. Louis, Missouri (USA) in 1933 (Lumsden 1958). The viral isolation was carried out from a brain sample of a death patient (Webster & Fite 1933, Muckenfuss et al. 1934). The outbreak took place during an exceptionally hot and dry summer. More than 1000 cases were reported most of them localized near open storm drains, rain drainage and sewage channels, which worked as Culex mosquitoes breading sites (Reisen 2003). Further ecological studies carried out during a SLEV human encephalitis outbreak in Yakima Valley (Washington, USA) (1941-1942) incriminated peridomestics birds species as hosts and Culex mosquitoes as vectors (Hammon et al. 1941, 1942b). Understanding the ecological and epidemiological behavior of SLEV and the development of new diagnostic techniques allowed a global vision regarding the public health importance of SLEV in the USA. 2024-09-15 Fil: Díaz, Luis Adrián. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Ciencias Médicas. Instituto de Virología "Dr. José María Vanella"; Argentina. Fil: Contigiani, Marta Silvia. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Ciencias Médicas. Instituto de Virología "Dr. José María Vanella"; Argentina. Fil: Spinsanti, Lorena Ivana. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Ciencias Médicas. Instituto de Virología "Dr. José María Vanella"; Argentina. Enfermedades Infecciosas 2022-09-14T12:29:26Z 2013 2013 bookPart Diaz, Luis Adrian; Spinsanti, Lorena Ivana; Contigiani de Minio, Marta Silvia; St. Louis Encephalitis; CRC Press - Taylor & Francis Group; 2013; 239-260 978-1-4665-6720-7 http://hdl.handle.net/11086/28490 eng Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ Impreso
spellingShingle Encefalitis de San Luis
Encephalitis, St. Louis
Encephalitis
Encefalitis
Díaz, Luis Adrián
Spinsanti, Lorena Ivana
Contigiani, Marta Silvia
St. Louis Encephalitis
title St. Louis Encephalitis
title_full St. Louis Encephalitis
title_fullStr St. Louis Encephalitis
title_full_unstemmed St. Louis Encephalitis
title_short St. Louis Encephalitis
title_sort st louis encephalitis
topic Encefalitis de San Luis
Encephalitis, St. Louis
Encephalitis
Encefalitis
url http://hdl.handle.net/11086/28490
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