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Elsevier, Archives de Pédiatrie, (16), p. S85-S88

DOI: 10.1016/s0929-693x(09)75307-2

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Infections à virus West Nile en pédiatrie

Journal article published in 2009 by G. Guyon, S. Ladet, M. Maestracci, E. Jeziorski ORCID, V. Foulongne, M. Rodière
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Abstract

Summary West Nile Virus infection is an arbovirosis accidentally transmitted to humans from an aviary reservoir via an infected mosquito. Though a French surveillance network set up in 2001 reports low circulation in France, the virus is endemic in other territories. Approximately 80 % of infected children remain asymptomatic, fever is seen in 20 %, and very few develop a severe neurological disease in the patient's blood or spinal fl uid. Treatment remains essentially symptomatic though new specifi c antiviral treatments and human immunization are currently being developed.