Rift valley fever epidemic in Saudi Arabia: Disconcerting epidemiological defects and lack of differential diagnoses and concordance in studies [1]

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1503-

  Fagbo, Shamsudeen F ^a  

^a Isa Mustafa Establishment ^*  (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRUCELLOSIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEPTOSPIROSIS; LETTER; MALARIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; Q FEVER; SAUDI ARABIA; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; RIFT VALLEY FEVER; RIFT VALLEY FEVER VIRUS; SAUDI ARABIA;

EID: 2442697601     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/383576     Document Type: Letter

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