Saint Louis encephalitis virus, Brazil [5]

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 176-178

  Mondini, Adriano ^a   Cardeal, Izabela Lídia Soares ^a   Lázaro, Eduardo ^b   Nunes, Silva H ^a   Moreira, Cibele C ^a   Rahal, Paula ^c   Maia, Irineu L ^a,d   Franco, Célia ^a,d   Góngora, Delzi V N ^a,d   Góngora Rubio, Fernando ^a,d   Cabrera, Eliana Márcia Sotello ^a,d   Figueiredo, Luiz Tadeu Moraes ^e   Da Fonseca, Flavio Guimarães ^f   Bronzoni, Roberta Vieira Moraes ^a   Chiaravalloti Neto, Franscisco ^a   Nogueira, Maurício Lacerda ^a,d  

^a FACULDADE DE MEDICINA DE SÃO JOSÉ DO RIO PRETO   (Brazil)

^b Departamento de Auditoria e Controle   (Brazil)

^c SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^d HOSPITAL DE BASE   (Brazil)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^f FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ARGENTINA; BRAZIL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS REACTION; DENGUE; DENGUE VIRUS; EPIDEMIC; FEVER; FLAVIVIRUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; JAUNDICE; LETTER; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEROTYPE; ST LOUIS FLAVIVIRUS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS ISOLATION;

EID: 33846040313     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1301.060905     Document Type: Letter

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