Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease
Volume 6, Issue 6 , Pages 373-375 , November 2008

West Nile virus-induced pancreatitis

  • Jonathan Buber

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine E, Sheba Medical Center, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Hashomer 52621, Israel
    • ,
  • Noam Fink

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine E, Sheba Medical Center, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Hashomer 52621, Israel
    • ,
  • Hanna Bin

      Affiliations

    • National Center for Zoonotic Viruses, Central Virology Laboratory, Israel
    • ,
  • Meir Mouallem

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine E, Sheba Medical Center, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Hashomer 52621, Israel
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +972 3 5302437; fax: +972 3 5302165.

Received 31 March 2008 ,Revised 28 July 2008 ,Accepted 6 August 2008.

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PII: S1477-8939(08)00119-1

doi: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2008.08.001

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease
Volume 6, Issue 6 , Pages 373-375 , November 2008

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