Japanese encephalitis in north Queensland, Australia, 1998

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 170, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 533-536

  Hanna, Jeffrey N ^a   Ritchie, Scott A ^a   Phillips, Debra A ^b   Lee, Jonathan M ^c   Hills, Susan L ^a   Van Den Hurk, Andrew F ^a   Pyke, Alyssa T ^b   Johansen, Cheryl A ^d   Mackenzie, John S ^d  

^a TROPICAL PUBLIC HEALTH UNIT   (Australia)

^b WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^c Australian Government Department of Agriculture Fisheries and Forestry   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CULEX; EPIDEMIC ENCEPHALITIS; HUMAN; JAPANESE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS; MALE; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; SCHOOL CHILD; SEROCONVERSION; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGY; SWINE; VIRAL GENETICS; WIND;

EID: 0033532620     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1999.tb127878.x     Document Type: Article

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