Family cluster of Mayaro fever, Venezuela

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1304-1306

  Torres, Jaime R ^a,f   Russell, Kevin L ^b   Vasquez, Clovis ^c   Barrera, Roberto ^c   Tesh, Robert B ^d   Salas, Rosalba ^e   Watts, Douglas M ^d  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DE VENEZUELA   (Venezuela)

^b NAVAL MEDICAL CENTER SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^c Ministry of Health and Social Development   (Venezuela)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

^e Caribbean Epidemiology Centre   (Trinidad and Tobago)

^f UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DE VENEZUELA   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M;

ADULT; ALPHA VIRUS; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FAMILIAL DISEASE; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; LABORATORY TEST; MAYARO ALPHAVIRUS; MAYARO FEVER; NONHUMAN; POLYARTHRITIS; RURAL AREA; VENEZUELA; ZOONOSIS;

EID: 3042777963     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1007.030860     Document Type: Article

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