Prevalence of anti-Rift-Valley-fever IgM antibody in abattoir workers in the Nile delta during the 1993 outbreak in Egypt

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 155-158

  Abu Elyazeed, R ^a,b   El Sharkawy, S ^c   Olson, J ^d   Botros, B ^a   Soliman, A ^a   Salib, A ^a   Cummings, C ^a   Arthur, R ^a,e  

^a US Naval Medical Research Unit No 3 Egypt   (Egypt)

^b Box 5000   (United States)

^c MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Egypt)

^d CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; EGYPT; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAT INDUSTRY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PREVALENCE;

ABATTOIRS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; CHILD; EGYPT; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONS; RIFT VALLEY FEVER; RIFT VALLEY FEVER VIRUS; RISK FACTORS; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES;

EID: 0030013125     PISSN: 00429686     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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