Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/11499/32526
Title: ASSESSMENT OF WEST NILE VIRUS INFECTION IN TURKEY BASED ON TWO RECENT
Authors: Sarı, Tuğba
Menemenlioğlu, Dilek
Aydın, Ebru
Özden, Tuba Nur
Kizılelma, Metin
Irmak, Hasan
Sencan, İrfan
Keywords: West Nile virus; prevalence; Turkey
Publisher: SOUTHEAST ASIAN MINISTERS EDUC ORGANIZATION
Abstract: West Nile virus (WNV) is an arbovirus maintained in enzootic transmission cycles between mosquitoes and birds and is occasionally transmitted to mammals. This study evaluated WNV-infected patients and public health measures taken in Turkey. Upon notification of two cases of WNV neuroinvasive form in October 2016 serological and neutralization tests were performed and clinical and epidemiological surveillance studies conducted. A female patient in Izmir recovered but a male patient in Manisa died from the infection. The prevalence of suspected WNV-infected cases in the two provinces in 2016 varied between 0-22.1 per 100,000 population. However, patients diagnosed with viral encephalitis, arthropod-borne viral encephalitis or mosquito-borne viral encephalitis were not infected with WNV. From a "One Health, One World" perspective, collaboration among veterinary and health authorities, entomologists, environmental specialists, and biologists, provides the best strategy towards control and prevention of WNV disease in Turkey.
C1 [Sari, Tugba] Pamukkale Univ, Fac Med, Dept Infect Dis & Clin Microbiol, Denizli, Turkey.
[Menemenlioglu, Dilek] Turkish Publ Hlth Inst, Dept Microbiol, Reference Labs, Ankara, Turkey.
[Aydin, Ebru] Turkish Publ Hlth Inst, Dept Zoonot & Vectorial Dis, Ankara, Turkey.
[Ozden, Tuba Nur] Manisa Publ Hlth Off, Dept Communicable Dis, Manisa, Turkey.
[Kizilelma, Metin] Izmir Publ Hlth Off, Dept Communicable Dis, Izmir, Turkey.
[Irmak, Hasan; Sencan, Irfan] Turkish Publ Hlth Inst, Ankara, Turkey.
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/11499/32526
ISSN: 0125-1562
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