Insects and Infectious Disease Unit, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France.
Euro Surveill. 2010 Mar 11;15(10):19508.
The appearance of West Nile virus in New York in 1999 and the unprecedented panzootic that followed, have stimulated a major research effort in the western hemisphere and a new interest in the presence of this virus in the Old World. This review considers current understanding of the natural history of this pathogen, with particular regard to transmission in Europe.
1999 年,西尼罗河病毒出现在纽约,随后在西半球引发了一场前所未有的大流行,这激发了人们对该病毒在旧世界存在的重大研究兴趣。本文回顾了目前对这种病原体自然史的认识,特别是在欧洲的传播。