Newly recognized focus of La Crosse encephalitis in Tennessee

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 93-97

  Jones, Timothy F ^a   Craig, Allen S ^b   Nasci, Roger S ^b   Patterson, Lori E R ^b   Erwin, Paul C ^b   Gerhardt, Reid R ^b   Ussery, Xilla T ^b   Schaffner, William ^b  

^a TENNESSEE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AEDES ALBOPICTUS; AEDES TRISERIATUS; ANTIBODY TITER; ARBOVIRUS; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LA CROSSE VIRUS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; PEDIATRIC HOSPITAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES; VIRUS ENCEPHALITIS;

EID: 0033021819     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/515087     Document Type: Article

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