West Nile virus reemergence in Romania, a serologic survey in host species WNV animal screening results in Romania
Résumé
West Nile virus presence in humans was signalled in Romania since the 50âs and the 1996 epidemics added new and more documented data of ait reemergence in the country. This study comes as a necessity to make more visible the results of serological surveys made on susceptible species, known as good sentinels and reservoir hosts. We present data from serological surveys conducted in the interval 2006-2011 intervals. These results correlated with other studies in animals and humans, should partially clarify the emergence of West Nile virus in the eastern rural territories of Romania and the possibility of a real endemisation of the infection, underlying certain risk zones in the country.