First human case of West Nile virus neuroinvasive infection in Italy, September 2008

First human case of West Nile virus neuroinvasive infection in Italy, September 2008 – case report

Published:2008-10-09 Issue:41 Volume:13 Page:
ISSN:1560-7917
Container-title:Eurosurveillance
language:en
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Author:

Rossini G¹,Cavrini F¹,Pierro A¹,Macini P²,Finarelli A C²,Po C²,Peroni G³,Di Caro A⁴,Capobianchi M R⁴,Nicoletti L⁵,Landini M P¹,Sambri V¹

Affiliation:

1. Centro di Riferimento Regionale per le Emergenze Microbiologiche (Regional Reference Centre for Microbiological Emergencies - CRREM), Microbiology Unit, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Bologna, Policlinico S.Orsola-Malpighi, Bologna, Italy

2. Servizio di Sanità Pubblica (Public Health Service), Regione Emilia Romagna, Bologna, Italy

3. Department of Public Health, Azienda Unità Sanitaria Locale di Imola, Imola, Italy

4. Istituto Nazionale Malattie Infettive (National Institute of Infectious Diseases) "L. Spallanzani", Rome, Italy

5. Istituto Superiore di Sanità (National Institute of Health, ISS), Rome, Italy

Abstract

On 20 September 2008, the laboratory of the Regional Reference Centre for Microbiological Emergencies (Centro di Riferimento Regionale per le Emergenze Microbiologiche, CRREM) in Bologna, reported the detection of specific IgM and IgG antibodies against West Nile virus (WNV) in the serum of a female patient in her eighties who lived in a rural area between Ferrara and Bologna, Italy.

Publisher

European Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (ECDC)

Subject

Virology,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health,Epidemiology

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