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West Nile Virus, Argentina
Fecha
2008-12Registro en:
Diaz, Luis Adrián; Komar, Nicholas; Visintin, Andrés Mario; Dantur Juri, Maria Julia; Stein, Marina; et al.; West Nile Virus, Argentina; Centers Disease Control; Emerging Infectious Diseases; 14; 4; 12-2008; 689-690
1080-6040
CONICET Digital
CONICET
Autor
Diaz, Luis Adrián
Komar, Nicholas
Visintin, Andrés Mario
Dantur Juri, Maria Julia
Stein, Marina
Allende, Rebeca Lobo
Aguilar, Javier
Laurito, Magdalena
Almiron, Walter Ricardo
Contigiani, Marta
Resumen
West Nile virus (WNV), genus Flavivirus, family Flaviviridaehas been rapidly dispersing through the Americas since its introduction in 1999 in New York (1). By 2004, serologic studies detected WNV-specific antibodies in birds and horses from Canada to northern South America (2-4). The first report of WNV activity in the Southern Cone of South America surfaced in April 2006, when 3 horses died in Argentina(5). However, established transmission foci in Argentina are unknown. We report evidence for the introduction and establishment of WNV in Argentina as early as January 2005.