West Nile Virus

This guide is an introductory list to help locate research materials at the Rowland Medical Library.  West Nile virus causes illness characterized by fever, headache, lymphadenopathy, muscular pains, rash and occasionally encephalitis.   First isolated in 1937 in Uganda, East Africa, West Nile virus belongs in group B arbovirus, which is transmissible by mosquitoes.  The virus has spread from its original base in East and Central Africa to Europe and North America.

Guides / Handbooks, encyclopedias, dictionaries / Selected textbooks / More books / Selected journals / More journals / Selected indexes and abstracts / Selected journal articles / More reference sources / Specialized sources / Selected electronic sources

Guides       

Centers for Disease Control:  Epidemic/Epizootic West Nile Virus in the United States:  Guidelines for Surveillance, Prevention, and Control
      www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvbid/westnile/resources/wnv-guidelines-aug-2003.pdf

Fields, Bernard N., et al (eds.).  Fields virology  5th ed.
        QW 160 V62 2007

Guerrant, Richard L., et al (eds.).  Essentials of tropical infectious diseases. p. 584-6.
       WC 680 E774 2001

Porterfield, James S. (ed.).  Exotic viral infections.
       WC 503.41 E967 1995

Gantz, Nelson M, et al (eds).  Manual of clinical problems in infectious disease.
        WC 100 M25c 2006

Handbooks, encyclopedias, dictionaries

          Encyclopedia of virology, 2nd ed.
                REF QW 13 E529 1999

          Handbook of infectious diseases. p.333-5.
                 WC 39 H262 2001

Mahy, B.W. J.  Dictionary of virology, 3d ed.
        REF QW 13 M139 2001

McKendall, Robert R. and William G. Stroop (eds.).  Handbook of neurovirology.
        WL 100 H268 1994

Scheld, WM, et al (eds.).  Infections of the central nervous system. 3d ed.
        WL 300 I533 2004

Selected textbooks

Boucher, CAB, et al (eds.).  Practical guidelines in antiviral therapy.
        WC 500 P712 2002

Nathanson, Neal (ed.). Viral pathogenesis.
        QZ 65 V472 1997

White, David O. and Frank J. Fenner.   Medical virology.
        QZ 65 F33 1994

Zuckerman, A.J., et al (eds.).  Principles and practice of clinical virology, 5th ed.
        WC 500 P75a 2004

Zinsser microbiology, 20th ed.
        REF QW 4 Z5 1992

More books

Search RoMeO Public Access Catalog:

Suggested subject headings:	Virus Diseases
	Viruses
	Virology
	Communicable Diseases
	Communicable Disease Control
	Antiviral Agents
	Microbiology

Selected journals

Antiviral research 

Emerging infectious diseases

Intervirology 

          Journal of general virology

Journal of medical virology 

Journal of virology 

Virology

More journals

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Suggested subject headings:	Virus Diseases  - Periodicals
	Viruses  - Periodicals
	Virology - Periodicals
	Virus Inhibitors - Periodicals
	Antiviral Agents - Periodicals
	Communicable Disease Control - Periodicals
	Communicable Diseases - Periodicals
	Microbiology - Periodicals

Selected indexes and abstracts

Ovid MEDLINE  or PubMed

Suggested subject headings:	West Nile Virus
	West Nile Fever
	Flavivirus
	Flavivirus Infections
	Encephalitis Virus, Japanese
	Disease Outbreaks
	Encephalitis, Viral
	Insect Vectors
	Arbovirus Infections
	Virus Diseases

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Search using keywords:	West Nile Virus
	West Nile Fever
	Flavivirus
	Flavivirus Infections
	Mosquito Borne
	Encephalitis Outbreak
	Insect Vectors
	Viral Encephalitis

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Search using keywords:	West Nile Virus
	Flavivirus
	Viral Encephalitis
	Arbovirus
	Insect Vectors
	Mosquito Borne
	Flaviviridae

Selected journal articles

            Hayes EB, O'Leary DR:  West Nile virus infection:  a pediatric perspective. 
          Pediatrics 2004 May;113(5) : 1375-81.

          Gottfried K, et al.:  Clinical description and follow-up investigation of human West Nile virus cases.
          Southern Medical Journal 2005 Jun;98(6):603-6.

          Saad M, et al.:  Acute flaccid paralysis:  the spectrum of a newly recognized complication of West
          Nile virus infection.  Journal of Infection 2005 Aug;51(2):120-7.

          Hayes EB.:  Virology, pathology, and clinical manifestations of West Nile virus disease.
          Emerging Infectious Diseases 2005 Aug;11(8):1174-9.  [only available on-line]

More reference sources       

Versteeg, Jan. Color atlas of virology.
        QW 17 V47 1985

International catalogue of arboviruses: including certain other viruses of vertebrates, 3rd ed.
        QW 168.5 .A7 I61 1985

Specialized sources

          West Nile Virus; Mississippi Department of Health
          http://www.msdh.state.ms.us/msdhsite/_static/14,0,93.html

Epidemic/epizootic West Nile virus in the United States: guidelines for surveillance, prevention, and control.
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvbid/westnile/

Department of Microbiology.  601-984-1743
        University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson
        V. Gregory Chinchar, PhD  vchinchar@microbio.umsmed.edu

Department of Medicine. Division of Infectious Diseases.   601-984-5561
        University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson
        Donna Sullivan, PhD  dsullivan@medicine.umsmed.edu

Selected electronic sources

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvbid/westnile/

NIAID Research on West Nile Virus 
http://www.niaid.nih.gov/factsheets/westnile.htm

West Nile Virus
http://www.aphis.usda.gov/lpa/issues/wnv/wnv.html

West Nile Virus Map - 2005
cdc.gov/ncidod/dvbid/westnile/surv&control05Maps.htm

West Nile Virus
http://www.vdh.state.va.us/epi/wnv.htm

Author:  Ardis Haaland;
Copyright 1999, Rev. 2000, 2002, 2006, 2007 (Susan Clark) Reference Department, Rowland Medical Library,
University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson