Kovtunov, A.I., Butenko, A.M., Dzharkenov, A.F., Kolobukhina, L.V., Zlobina, L.V., Grishanova, A.P., Sulayants, N.N., Azarian, A.R., Oleinik, I.I., Noskova, L.N., Slavina, A.M.

Epidemiological characterization of West Nile fever in the Astrakhan region

Regional Center for State Sanitary and Epidemiological Surveillance, Astrakhan; Ivanovsky Research Institute of Virusology, Moscow, Russia

226 patients with West Nile fever were registered in the Astrakhan region during the period of 1991 — 2002, including 216 patients in Astrakhan and in 9 rural districts of the region during the period 1997 — 2002. In 1999 five out of 95 West Nile fever patients died. The main part of the patients (70%) included the residents of Astrakhan and small towns. The vectors of West Nile fever virus were, most probably, mosquitoes Culex pipiens, C.modestus and Mansonia richiardii.
Zh. Mikrobiol. (Moscow), 2005, No. 4, Supplement, P. 74—76