Rift valley fever surveillance in the lower Senegal River Basin: Update 10 years after the epidemic

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 580-585

  Thonnon, Jocelyn ^c   Picquet, Michel ^a   Thiongane, Yaya ^b   Lo, Mustapha ^b   Sylla, Roughy ^d   Vercruysse, Jozef ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b Institut Senegalais de Recherches AgrEcoles Dakar   (Senegal)

^c INSTITUT PASTEUR DE LA GUYANE   (French Guiana)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Rainfall; Rift valley fever; Senegal; Seroprevalence

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

DISEASE CONTROL; MONITORING;

ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; EPIDEMIC; EPIZOOTIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; SEASONAL VARIATION; SENEGAL; SEROPREVALENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; CHILD; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GOAT DISEASES; GOATS; HUMANS; MALE; RAIN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RIFT VALLEY FEVER; RIFT VALLEY FEVER VIRUS; SEASONS; SENEGAL; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES;

SENEGAL;

ANIMALIA; CAPRA HIRCUS; OVIS ARIES; RNA VIRUSES;

EID: 0032871492     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3156.1999.00437.x     Document Type: Article

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