Age-related seroprevalence study for St. Louis encephalitis in a population from Cordoba, Argentina

Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 59-62

  Spinsanti, Lorena Ivana ^a   Ré, Viviana Elizabeth ^b   Díaz, María Pilar ^b   Contigiani, Marta Silvia ^b  

^a FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS MÉDICAS   (Argentina)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Age; C rdoba, Argentina; Seroprevalence; St. Louis encephalitis

Indexed keywords

VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CHILD; EPIDEMIC ENCEPHALITIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; ST LOUIS FLAVIVIRUS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; ARGENTINA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS, ST. LOUIS; ENCEPHALITIS, ST. LOUIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES;

EID: 0036514781     PISSN: 00364665     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0036-46652002000200001     Document Type: Article

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