Human hantavirus infection, Brazilian Amazon [4]

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1165-1167

  Dos Santos, Marcelo Cordeiro ^a,b,c   Guimarães De Lacerda, Marcus Vinícius ^a,b,c,d   Benedetti, Soledade Maria ^a   Albuquerque, Bernardino Cláudio ^a,b,c,e   De Aguiar Filho, Alfredo A B Vieira ^e   Elkhoury, Mauro Da Rosa ^f   Travassos Da Rosa, Elizabeth Salbé ^g   Da Costa Vasconcelos, Pedro Fernando ^g   De Almeida Medeiros, Daniele Barbosa ^g   Gomes Mourão, Maria Paula ^a,b,c,d  

^a Institute of Tropical Medicine of Amazonas   (Brazil)

^b Amazonas State University   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSIDADE NILTON LINS   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

^e Health Surveillance Foundation   (Brazil)

^f MINISTÉRIO DA SAÚDE   (Brazil)

^g INSTITUTO EVANDRO CHAGAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; PENICILLIN G; RECOMBINANT ANTIGEN; VIRUS ANTIBODY; VIRUS ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODY DETECTION; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BRAZIL; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HANTAVIRUS PULMONARY SYNDROME; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LETTER; MALE; MORTALITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RODENT; SIN NOMBRE VIRUS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; UNITED STATES; VIRUS ISOLATION;

EID: 33745931869     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1207.060074     Document Type: Letter

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