Genetic analysis of viruses associated with emergence of Rift Valley fever in Saudi Arabia and Yemen, 2000-01

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1415-1420

  Shoemaker, Trevor ^a,b   Boulianne, Carla ^a,b   Vincent, Martin J ^a   Pezzanite, Linda ^a   Al Qahtani, Mohammed M ^c   Al Mazrou, Yagub ^c   Khan, Ali S ^a   Rollin, Pierre E ^a   Swanepoel, Robert ^d   Ksiazek, Thomas G ^a   Nichol, Stuart T ^a  

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

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Saudi Arabia)

^d National Institute of Virology   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ARTICLE; DEATH; EPIDEMIC; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIFT VALLEY FEVER BUNYAVIRUS; SAUDI ARABIA; SEROLOGY; VIRAL GENETICS; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS ISOLATION; YEMEN;

EID: 0036913869     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid0812.020195     Document Type: Article

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