Selected Publications after 1980
West Nile
Draganescu N, Iftimovici R, Mutiu A, Girjabu E, Iacobescu V, Lapusneanu C, Ignatescu B, Manolescu G.Detection of antibodies to alphaviruses and flaviviruses in some migratory birds of the Danube Delta.Virologie. 1978 Apr-Jun;29(2):113-6.
Târdei G, Ruta SM, V. Chitu, C. Cernescu Argumente serologice pentru definitia de caz într-o epidemie de meningoencefalita arbovirala. Std. cerc. Virusologie, 1997, 27, 25 - 35.
Cernescu C., Ruta SM., Tardei G., Grancea C., Moldoveanu L., Spulbar E., Tsai T.F.: A high number of severe neurologic clinical forms during an epidemic of West Nile virus infection Rom. J Virol.,1997, 48, 13-25
Tsai T.F., Popovici F., Cernescu C., Campbell G.L., Nedelcu N.I and the investigative team: V. Laurentia, L. Spantulescu, V. Chitu, SM Ruta, G. Tardei, D. Craciun, D. Nicolaiciuc, D. Pitigoi, C. Ceianu, G. Nicolaescu, A.Ungureanu, L.A. Vladimirescu, V. Deubel,B. Leguenno, L. Han, H. Savage, L. Tengelsen, E. A. Henchal, F. Knauert, J. A. Mangiafico, C. Ross i West Nile encephalitis epidemic in southeastern Romania, Lancet 1998, 352, 9130, 767-771.
Han LL, Popovici F, Alexander JP Jr, Laurentia V, Tengelsen LA, Cernescu C, Gary HE Jr, Ion-Nedelcu N, Campbell GL, Tsai TF. Risk factors for West Nile virus infection and meningoencephalitis, Romania, 1996. J.Infect Dis. 1999 Jan;179(1):230-3
Ruta SM Extinderea spectrului virozelor emergente Std. cerc. Virusologie 1999, 29 (2) 20-24
Cernescu C, Nedelcu I., Tardei G., SM Ruta, Tsai T. Continued transmission of West Nile virus to humans in southeastern Romania 1997 - 1998. J Inf Dis 2000,18 (2):710-2.
Tardei G, SM Ruta., Chitu V. , Rossi C. A., Tsai T.F., Cernescu C. Evaluation of IgM and IgG Enzyme Immunoassay in the serologic diagnosis of West Nile virus infection, J. Clin. Microb.2000,38, 6, 2232-2239.
Ceianu C., Ungureanu A., Nicolescu G., Cernescu C., Nitescu L., West Nile virus surveillance in Romania: 1997-2000, Viral Immunol 2001, 14:251-262-