Rift Valley Fever Epidemic in Saudi Arabia: Epidemiological, Clinical, and Laboratory Characteristics

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1084-1092

  Madani, Tariq A ^a   Al Mazrou, Yagob Y ^a   Al Jeffri, Mohammad H ^a   Mishkhas, Amin A ^a   Al Rabeah, Abdullah M ^a   Turkistani, Adel M ^a   Al Sayed, Mohammad O ^a   Abodahish, Abdullah A ^a   Khan, Ali S ^b   Ksiazek, Thomas G ^b   Shobokshi, Osama ^a  

^a MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Saudi Arabia)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN M;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; FEVER; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; HUMAN; JAUNDICE; KIDNEY DISEASE; LABORATORY TEST; LEUKOPENIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAUSEA; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAUDI ARABIA; SCOTOMA; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; VOMITING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NAUSEA; RIFT VALLEY FEVER; RIFT VALLEY FEVER VIRUS; SAUDI ARABIA; VOMITING; YEMEN;

EID: 0142249430     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/378747     Document Type: Article

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