Measles in a Dutch hospital introduced by an immunocompromised infant from Indonesia infected with a new virus genotype

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Volumn 355, Issue 9199, 2000, Pages 201-202

  De Swart, R L ^a   Wertheim Van Dillen, P M E ^b   Van Binnendijk, R S ^c   Muller, C P ^d   Frenkel, J ^b   Osterhaus, A D M E ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^d LABORATOIRE NATIONAL DE SANTÉ   (Luxembourg)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; NUCLEOTIDE; VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DISEASE CONTROL; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNITY; INDONESIA; LEUKEMIA; MALE; MEASLES; MORTALITY; NETHERLANDS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SCREENING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VIRAL GENETICS; VIRUS STRAIN;

EID: 0034650225     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(99)04652-8     Document Type: Article

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