Fever epidemic moves into Sri Lanka [6]

British Medical Journal

Volumn 333, Issue 7580, 2006, Pages 1220-1221

  Seneviratne, Suranjith L ^a   Perera, Jennifer ^b  

^a MANCHESTER ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOMBO   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHIKUNGUNYA ALPHAVIRUS; COMMUNITY CARE; EPIDEMIC; FEVER; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; LETTER; MOSQUITO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SRI LANKA; TRAVEL; UNITED STATES; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ALPHAVIRUS INFECTIONS; CHIKUNGUNYA VIRUS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; MOSQUITO CONTROL; SRI LANKA;

EID: 33845572732     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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