Emerging leptospirosis, North India [2]

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1526-1527

  Chaudhry, Rama ^a   Premlatha, M M ^a   Mohanty, Srujana ^a   Dhawan, Benu ^a   Singh, Kumar Kirti ^a   Dey, A B ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY;

AGGLUTINATION TEST; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; INDIA; LEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANS; LEPTOSPIROSIS; LETTER; RELIABILITY; SERODIAGNOSIS; ZOONOSIS;

EID: 0036908966     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid0812.020052     Document Type: Letter

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