Yellow fever outbreak, Imatong, Southern Sudan

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1064-1068

  Onyango, Clayton O ^a,d   Ofula, Victor O ^a   Sang, Rosemary C ^a   Konongoi, Samson L ^a   Sow, Abdourahmane ^b   De Cock, Kevin M ^c   Tukei, Peter M ^d   Okoth, Fredrick A ^d   Swanepoel, Robert ^e   Burt, Felicity J ^e   Waters, Norman C ^d   Coldren, Rodney L ^d  

^a (WHO) Collab Ctr A/V H F R/R   (Kenya)

^b WHO South Sudan   (Kenya)

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

^d KENYA MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNICABLE DISEASES   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; YELLOW FEVER VACCINE; VIRUS ANTIBODY; VIRUS RNA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; FLAVIVIRUS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MALE; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SERODIAGNOSIS; SUDAN; VACCINATION; VERO CELL; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS ISOLATION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; YELLOW FEVER; YELLOW FEVER FLAVIVIRUS; ANIMAL; BIOASSAY; BLOOD; BRAIN; CERCOPITHECUS; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MIDDLE AGED; PRESCHOOL CHILD; VIROLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; BRAIN; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MIDDLE AGED; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SUDAN; VERO CELLS; YELLOW FEVER; YELLOW FEVER VIRUS;

EID: 2542521672     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1006.030738     Document Type: Article

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