Isolation and genetic characterization of Rift Valley fever virus from Aedes vexans arabiensis, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1492-1494

  Miller, Barry R ^a,c   Godsey, Marvin S ^a   Crabtree, Mary B ^a   Savage, Harry M ^a   Al Mazrao, Yagob ^b   Al Jeffri, Mohammed H ^b   Abdoon, Abdel Mohsin M ^b   Al Seghayer, Suleiman M ^b   Al Shahrani, Ali M ^b   Ksiazek, Thomas G ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Saudi Arabia)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEDES; AFRICA; ARTICLE; DISEASE CARRIER; EPIDEMIC; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; MADAGASCAR; NONHUMAN; RIFT VALLEY FEVER BUNYAVIRUS; SAUDI ARABIA; VIRAL GENETICS; VIRUS ISOLATION;

EID: 0036913848     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid0812.020194     Document Type: Article

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