West Nile fever in a patient in Romania, August 2008: case report

F Popovici; A Sarbu; O Nicolae; A Pistol; R Cucuiu; B Stolica; F Furtunescu; M Manuc; M I Popa

doi:10.2807/ese.13.39.18989-en

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West Nile fever in a patient in Romania, August 2008: case report
F Popovici¹ , A Sarbu² , O Nicolae² , A Pistol² , R Cucuiu² , B Stolica³ , F Furtunescu^4,5 , M Manuc^4,5 , M I Popa^4,5
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Affiliations: ¹ Office for Alert of Public Health Events, Public Health Institute, Bucharest, Romania ² Center for Prevention and Control of Communicable Diseases, Bucharest, Romania ³ Public Health Institute, Bucharest, Romania ⁴ Ministry of Public Health, Bucharest, Romania ⁵ "Carol Davila" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania

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Citation style for this article: Popovici F, Sarbu A, Nicolae O, Pistol A, Cucuiu R, Stolica B, Furtunescu F, Manuc M, Popa M I. West Nile fever in a patient in Romania, August 2008: case report. Euro Surveill. 2008;13(39):pii=18989. https://doi.org/10.2807/ese.13.39.18989-en Received: 22 Sept 2008

Abstract

On 25 August 2008, the National Institute of Research Development for Microbiology and Immunology (the 'Cantacuzino' Institute) in Bucharest, Romania reported the detection of IgM antibodies against West Nile virus in the serum of a male patient in his mid forties, from Braila town (Braila county, south eastern part of Romania). .