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MMWR Publications for 2004

• West Nile Virus Activity --- United States, October 20--26, 2004
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)October 29, 2004 / 53(42);996
• West Nile Virus Activity --- United States, October 13--19, 2004
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)October 22, 2004 / 53(41);971-972
• West Nile Virus Activity --- United States, October 6--12, 2004
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)October 15, 2004 / 53(40);950-951
• West Nile Virus Activity --- United States, September 29--October 5, 2004
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)October 8, 2004 / 53(39);922-923
• West Nile Virus Activity --- United States, September 22--28, 2004
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)October 1, 2004 / 53(38);900
• West Nile Virus Activity --- United States, September 15--21, 2004
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)September 24, 2004 / 53(37);875-876
• West Nile Virus Activity --- United States, September 8--14, 2004
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)September 17, 2004 / 53(36);850-851
• West Nile Virus Activity --- United States, September 1--7, 2004
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)September 10, 2004 /53(35);823-824
• West Nile Virus Activity --- United States, August 25--31, 2004
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)September 3, 2004 / 53(34);795-796
• West Nile Virus Activity --- United States, August 18--24, 2004
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) August 27, 2004 / 53(33);770-771
• West Nile Virus Activity --- United States, August 11--17, 2004
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) August 20, 2004 / 53(32);742-743
• West Nile Virus Activity --- United States, August 4--10, 2004
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) August 13, 2004 / 53(31);719-720
• West Nile Virus Activity --- United States, July 28--August 3, 2004
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) August 5, 2004 / 53(30);686-687
• West Nile Virus Activity --- United States, July 21--27, 2004
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) July 30, 2004 / 53(29);661-662
• West Nile Virus Activity --- United States, July 14--20, 2004
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) July 23, 2004 / 53(28);638-639
• West Nile Virus Activity --- United States, July 7--13, 2004  
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) July 16, 2004 / 53(27);615
• West Nile Virus Activity --- United States, June 30--July 6, 2004
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) July 9, 2004 / 53(26);586
• West Nile Virus Activity --- United States, June 23--29, 2004
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) July 2, 2004 / 53(25);563
• West Nile Virus Activity --- United States, June 16--22, 2004
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) June 25, 2004 / 53(24);535-536
• West Nile Virus Activity --- United States, June 9--15, 2004
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) June 18, 2004 / 53(23);511-512
• West Nile Virus Activity --- United States, June 2--8, 2004
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) June 11, 2004 / 53(22);484

MMWR Publications Archived 1999-2003

Emerging Infectious Disease Journal, by Date

• Experimental Infection of Cats and Dogs with West Nile Virus. Austgen et al. Emerging Infectious Diseases Jan 2004; 10(1). [PDF forthcoming]
  
  
• Dead Bird Clusters as an Early Warning System for West Nile Virus Activity. Mostashari et al. Emerging Infectious Diseases June 2003; 9(6) (Also available in PDF format [299 KB, 6 pp.])

• Imported West Nile Virus Infection in Europe . Charles et al. Emerging Infectious Diseases June 2003; 9(6) (Also available in PDF format [152 KB, 1 pp.])

• Early-Season Avian Deaths from West Nile Virus as Warnings of Human Infection. Guptill et al.Emerging Infectious Diseases Apr 2003; 9(4) (Also available in PDF format [195 KB, 2 pp.])
  
  
• First Isolation of West Nile virus from a Patient with Encephalitis in the United States. Huang et al. Emerging Infectious Diseases Dec 2002; 8(12):1367-1371.(Also available in PDF format [491 KB, 5 pp].)
  
  
• Vector Competence of California Mosquitoes for West Nile virus. Goddard et al. Emerging Infectious Diseases Dec 2002; 8(12):1385 -1391. (Also available in PDF format [249 KB, 7 pp].)
  
  
• Efficacy of Killed Virus Vaccine, Live Attenuated Chimeric Virus Vaccine, and Passive Immunization for Prevention of West Nile virus Encephalitis in Hamster Model. Tesh et al. Emerging Infectious Diseases Dec 2002; 8(12):1392 -1397. (Also available in PDF format [325 KB, 6 pp].)
  
  
• Induction of Inflammation by West Nile virus Capsid through the Caspase-9 Apoptotic Pathway Yang et al. Emerging Infectious Diseases Dec 2002; 8(12):1379 - 1384. (Also available in PDF format [470 KB, 6 pp.].)
  
  
• West Nile virus Epidemic in Horses, Tuscany Region, Italy. Autorino et al. Emerging Infectious Diseases Dec 2002; 8(12):1372-1378. (Also available in PDF format [459 KB, 7pp].)
  
  
• Special West Nile Virus Edition of Emerging Infectious Diseases Journal. Aug 2001;7(4).
  (Also available in PDF format [3.08 MB, 161 pp].)

• Migratory Birds and Spread of West Nile Virus in the Western Hemisphere. Rappole JH, Derrickson SR, Hubálek Z. Emerging Infectious Diseases Jul-Aug 2000;6:319-328.
  (Also available in PDF format [148 KB, 10 pp].)

• West Nile Fever—a Reemerging Mosquito-Borne Viral Disease in Europe. Hubálek Z, Halouzka J. Emerging Infectious Diseases Sep-Oct 1999;5:643-650.
  (Also available in PDF format [107 KB, 8 pp].)

Guidelines

• Guidelines for Arbovirus Surveillance in the United States (553 KB, 85 pages).

Other CDC Publications

• New! The Epidemic of West Nile Virus in the United States, 2002 (284 KB, 10 pages)
  
  
• West Nile Virus and other Mosquito Borne Infections (1.38 MB, 6 pages)
  
  
• Herrington JE. Pre-West Nile Virus Outbreak: Perceptions and practices to prevent mosquito bites and viral encephalitis in the United States. Vector Borne and Zoonotic Diseases Journal, 2003;3(4):157-173. (261 KB, 17pages)

• National West Nile Virus Surveillance System, 2000: Final Plan (81 KB, 24 pages)

• CDC Data and Specimen Handling (DASH) section form 50.34 for submission of laboratory specimens (22 KB, 2 pages)

• Mosquitoes of Public Health Importance and Their Control. Self-Study Course 3013-G, Vector-Borne Disease Control:

  Cover - page 13 (1.04 MB, 16 pages) Pages 14-21 (571 KB, 8 pages) Pages 22-44 (1.62 MB, 23 pages) Pages 45-57 (856 KB, 13 pages) Pages 58-74 (1.27 MB, 17 pages) Pages 75-85 (661 KB, 11 pages)

• West Nile Virus Brochure
  Designed for distribution to the general public, this brochure teaches readers about West Nile virus and West Nile encephalitis, and offers tips and strategies for avoiding mosquito bites. 2003.

  PDF (18.5MBs/2pages)

• West Nile Virus (WNV) Infection: Information for Clinicians

  PDF (151 KB/2 pages) MS Word (98 KB/2 pages)

  Publications Outside CDC

  • New! Martha Iwamoto, M.D., M.P.H., Daniel B. Jernigan, M.D., M.P.H., Antonio Guasch, M.D., et al. Transmission of West Nile Virus from an Organ Donor to Four Transplant Recipients. The New England Journal of Medicine.
    2003;348:2196-2203.
    
    
  • New! D,L. Morse, Perspective: West Nile Virus--Not a Passing Phenomenon.The New England Journal of Medicine.
    2003;348:2173-2174.
    
    
  • New! DA Martin, BJ Biggerstaff, B Allen, AJ Johnson, RS Lanciotti and JT Roehrig. 2002. Use of Immunoglibulin M Cross-reactions in Differential Diagnosis of Human Flaviviral Encephalitis Infections in the United States. Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology 9(3):544-49.
    
    
  • New! Biggerstaff, B. J., and Petersen, L. R. (2002), Estimated Risk of West Nile Virus Transmission through Blood Transfusion During an Epidemic in Queens, New York City, Transfusion, 42, 1019-1026.
    
    
  • Anderson JF, Andreadis TG, Vossbrinck CR, et al. Isolation of West Nile virus from mosquitoes, crows, and a Cooper's hawk in Connecticut. Science. 1999;286:2331-2333.
    
    
  • Campbell GL, Marfin AM, Lanciotti RS, and Gubler DG. West Nile virus. Lancet Infectious Diseases. 2002;2:519-29.
    (In PDF format [1.57 MB, 11 pages].)
    Reprinted with permission from Elsevier Science (The Lancet, 2002, Vol No. 2, 519-29)
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  • Fradin MS, Day JF. Comparative efficacy of insect repellents against mosquito bites. N Engl J Med. 2002;347(1):13-8. Access restricted. See NEJM homepage for access options.
    
    
  • Han LL, Popovici F, Alexander, Jr. JP, et al. Risk factors for West Nile virus infection and meningitis or encephalitis, Romania, 1996. Journal of Infectious Diseases. 1999;179:230-233.
    
    
  • Jai X-Y, Briese T, Jordan I, Rambaut A, et al. Genetic analysis of West Nile New York 1999 virus. Lancet. 1999;354:1971-1972.
    
    
  • Komar N. West Nile viral encephalitis. Revue Scientifique et Technique 2000;191:66-76.
    
    
  • Lanciotti RS, Kerst AJ, Nasci RS, et al. Rapid detection of West Nile virus from human clinical specimens, field-collected mosquitoes, and avian samples by a TaqMan reverse transcriptase-PCR assay. Journal of Clinical Microbiology 2000;38:4066-4071.
    
    
  • Lanciotti RS, Roehrig JT, Deubel V, et al. Origin of the West Nile virus responsible for an outbreak of encephalitis in the northeastern United States. Science. 1999;286(5448):2333-2337.
    
    
  •  Mostashari F, Bunning ML, Kitsutani PT, et al. Epidemic West Nile encephalitis, New York, 1999: results of a household-based seroepidemiological survey. Lancet 2001;358:261-264.
    
    
  • Nash D, Mostashari F, Fina A, et al. The outbreak of West Nile virus infection in the New York City area in 1999. New England Journal of Medicine 2001;3441:1807-1814.
    
    
  • Petersen LR, Marfin AA. West Nile Virus: A Primer for the Clinician [Review] Annals of Internal Medicine 2002;137:173-179.
    (Also available in PDF format [287 KB, 7 pages].)
    
    
  • Savage HM, Ceianu C, Nicolescu G, et al. Entomologic and avian investigations of an epidemic of West Nile fever in Romania in 1996, with serologic and molecular characterizations of a virus isolate from mosquitoes. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 1999;61:600-611.
    
    
  • Tsai TF, Popovici F, Cernescu C, Campbell GL, Nedelcu NI. West Nile encephalitis epidemic in southeastern Romania. Lancet. 1998;352:767-771.