Surveillance of measles in the Sudan using filter paper blood samples

Journal of Medical Virology

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 624-630

  El Mubarak, H S ^a,b   Yuksel S ^a   Mustafa, O M ^b   Ibrahim, S A ^b   Osterhaus, A D M E ^a   De Swart, R L ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KHARTOUM   (Sudan)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Epidemiology; Genotyping; IgM; RT PCR; Serology

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; NUCLEOTIDE;

AMPLICON; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FILTER PAPER; GENOTYPE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASLES; MEASLES VIRUS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PAPER; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEROLOGY; SUDAN; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION;

ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; BLOOD SPECIMEN COLLECTION; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FILTRATION; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; MEASLES; MEASLES VIRUS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PAPER; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SUDAN;

MEASLES VIRUS;

EID: 3042785513     PISSN: 01466615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmv.20136     Document Type: Article

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