Direct genetic detection of Dobrava virus in Greek and albanian patients with hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 174, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 407-410

  Antoniadis, Antonis ^a   Stylianakis, Antonis ^b   Papa, Anna ^b   Alexiou Daniel, Stella ^b   Lampropoulos, Alexis ^b   Nichol, Stuart T ^b   Peters, Clarence J ^b   Spiropoulou, Christina F ^b  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; VIRUS RNA;

ADULT; ALBANIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; ENDEMIC DISEASE; GREECE; HANTAVIRUS; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIRAL GENETICS; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS HEMORRHAGIC FEVER;

EID: 0029905438     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/174.2.407     Document Type: Article

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