The West Nile Virus outbreak of 1999 in New York: The flushing hospital experience

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 413-418

  Asnis, Deborah S ^a   Conetta, Rick ^a   Teixeira, Alex A ^a   Waldman, Glenn ^a   Sampson, Barbara A ^b  

^a FLUSHING HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Flushing Hospital Medical Center ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONJUNCTIVITIS; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; FEVER; HEADACHE; HUMAN; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MALE; MYALGIA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASH; UNITED STATES; VIRUS INFECTION; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; BRAIN; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENINGITIS, VIRAL; MIDDLE AGED; NEW YORK CITY; WEST NILE FEVER; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 0034075352     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/313737     Document Type: Article

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