An outbreak of Japanese encephalitis in the Torres Strait, Australia, 1995

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 165, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 256-260

  Hanna, Jeffrey N ^a   Ritchie, Scott A ^a   Phillips, Debra A ^b   Shield, Jack ^c   Bailey, M Clare ^d   Mackenzie, John S ^e   Poidinger, Michael ^e   McCall, Bradley J ^d   Mills, Phillip J ^d  

^a TROPICAL PUBLIC HEALTH UNIT   (Australia)

^b WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^c DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES   (Australia)

^d QUEENSLAND HEALTH   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS VECTOR;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BIRD; CULEX; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIDEMIC ENCEPHALITIS; HUMAN; MIGRATION; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; SERODIAGNOSIS; SWINE; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0029797719     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1996.tb124960.x     Document Type: Article

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