Nosocomial buffalopoxvirus infection, Karachi, Pakistan

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 902-904

  Zafar, Afia ^a,e   Swanepoel, Robert ^b   Hewson, Roger ^c   Nizam, Mazhar ^d   Ahmed, Altaf ^d   Husain, Akhtar ^a   Grobbelaar, Antoinette ^b   Bewley, Kevin ^c   Mioulet, Valerie ^c   Dowsett, Barry ^c   Easterbrook, Linda ^c   Hasan, Rumina ^a  

^a AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Pakistan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNICABLE DISEASES   (South Africa)

^c PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^d Patel Hospital   (Pakistan)

^e AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BUFFALO; BURN UNIT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PAKISTAN; PATIENT MOBILITY; POXVIRUS; POXVIRUS INFECTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

EID: 34250020415     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1306.061068     Document Type: Article

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