Sentinel surveillance for enterovirus 71, Taiwan, 1998

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 458-460

  Wu, Trong Neng ^c,d   Tsai, Su Fen ^b   Li, Shu Fang ^e   Lee, Tsuey Fong ^e   Huang, Tzu Mei ^e   Wang, Mei Li ^e   Hsu, Kwo Hsiung ^e   Shen, Chen Yang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^b Ministry of Health and Welfare   (Taiwan)

^c KAOHSIUNG MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^e NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ENTEROVIRUS; EPIDEMIC; HAND FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; NONHUMAN; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; TAIWAN; VIRUS DETECTION;

EID: 0033043380     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid0503.990321     Document Type: Article

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