Hantavirus infection in humans and rodents, Northwestern Argentina

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1070-1076

  Pini, Noemi ^a,i   Levis, Silvana ^a   Calderón, Gladys ^a   Ramirez, Josefina ^b   Bravo, Daniel ^c   Lozano, Elena ^b   Ripoll, Carlos ^d   St Jeor, Stephen ^e   Ksiazek, Thomas G ^f   Barquez, Ruben M ^g,h   Enria, Delia ^a  

^a Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Virales Humanas Dr Julio I Maiztegui   (Argentina)

^b Hospital San Miguel   (Argentina)

^c Hospital Oscar Orias   (Argentina)

^d Dirección de Epidemiologia   (Argentina)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

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

^g UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE TUCUMÁN   (Argentina)

^h Consejo Nac Invest Cie/Tecnicas ^*  (Argentina)

ⁱ Inst Nac E V H Dr J I M   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBODY TITER; ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; ENDEMIC DISEASE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HANTAVIRUS; HANTAVIRUS PULMONARY SYNDROME; HUMAN; INFESTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; POPULATION RESEARCH; SEROPREVALENCE; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0041315557     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid0909.020768     Document Type: Article

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