Lookback exercise with imported crimean-congo hemorrhagic fever, Senegal and France

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1424-1426

  Tarantola, Arnaud ^a   Nabeth, Pierre ^b   Tattevin, Pierre ^c   Michelet, Christian ^c   Zeller, Hervé ^d  

^a INSTITUT DE VEILLE SANITAIRE   (France)

^b INSTITUT PASTEUR DE DAKAR   (Senegal)

^c PONTCHAILLOU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^d Ctr Natl Ref pour les Enterovirus   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONGO; DISEASE COURSE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FRANCE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INTENSIVE CARE; PATIENT CARE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENEGAL;

EID: 33749031865     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1209.060002     Document Type: Article

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