Don't forget dengue! Clinical features of dengue fever in returning travellers

Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of London

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 235-237

  Shirtcliffe, Philippa ^a   Cameron, Ewen ^a   Nicholson, Karl G ^a   Wiselka, Martin J ^a  

^a LEICESTER ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DENGUE; DENGUE VIRUS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; GENETICS; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TRAVEL;

ADULT; DENGUE; DENGUE VIRUS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TRAVEL;

EID: 0032063116     PISSN: 00358819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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