Chikungunya fever in a Spanish traveller [4];Infección por virus de Chikungunya en una viajera española

Medicina Clinica

Volumn 129, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 118-119

  Prous, Concepción Amador ^a   López Perezagua, María Del Mar ^a   Zaragozí, Francisco Javier Arjona ^a   Martínez Peinado, Carmen ^a  

^a HOSPITAL MARINA BAIXA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTHRALGIA; CASE REPORT; CHIKUNGUNYA ALPHAVIRUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LETTER; MACULOPAPULAR RASH; SKIN MANIFESTATION; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS VIRULENCE; INDIA; MIDDLE AGED; SPAIN; TRAVEL;

ALPHAVIRUS INFECTIONS; CHIKUNGUNYA VIRUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; MIDDLE AGED; SPAIN; TRAVEL;

EID: 34548402529     PISSN: 00257753     EISSN: 15788989     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1157/13107372     Document Type: Letter

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