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SUBMITTER: Conte A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4696814 | biostudies-literature | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Conte Annamaria A Candeloro Luca L Ippoliti Carla C Monaco Federica F De Massis Fabrizio F Bruno Rossana R Di Sabatino Daria D Danzetta Maria Luisa ML Benjelloun Abdennasser A Belkadi Bouchra B El Harrak Mehdi M Declich Silvia S Rizzo Caterina C Hammami Salah S Ben Hassine Thameur T Calistri Paolo P Savini Giovanni G
PloS one 20151230 12
West Nile virus (WNV) is a mosquito-transmitted Flavivirus belonging to the Japanese encephalitis antigenic complex of the Flaviviridae family. Its spread in the Mediterranean basin and the Balkans poses a significant risk to human health and forces public health officials to constantly monitor the virus transmission to ensure prompt application of preventive measures. In this context, predictive tools indicating the areas and periods at major risk of WNV transmission are of paramount importance ...[more]