An outbreak of West Nile fever among migrants in Kisangani, Democratic Republic of Congo

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 885-888

  Nur, Yassin A ^a   Groen, Jan ^a   Heuvelmans, Hans ^b   Tuynman, Welmoet ^b   Copra, Cedrick ^a   Osterhaus, Albert D M E ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b MÉDECINS SANS FRONTIÈRES   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMA; CONGO; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVULSION; COUGHING; EPIDEMIC; HEADACHE; HUMAN; MALE; SEROLOGY; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS ISOLATION; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS;

CHIKUNGUNYA VIRUS; CRIMEAN-CONGO HEMORRHAGIC FEVER VIRUS; DENGUE VIRUS; FLAVIVIRUS; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA TYPHI; RIFT VALLEY FEVER VIRUS; RNA VIRUSES; SINDBIS VIRUS; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 0033390815     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.1999.61.885     Document Type: Article

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