Short report: Seroprevalence of antibodies to parvovirus B19 among children in Papua New Guinea

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 354-357

  Wildig, James ^a   Mueller, Ivo ^b   Kiniboro, Benson ^b   Maraga, Seri ^b   Siba, Peter ^b   Cossart, Yvonne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b PAPUA NEW GUINEA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Papua New Guinea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; HEMOGLOBIN; VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHILD; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; ERYTHEMA INFECTIOSUM; GUINEA; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEWBORN; PARVOVIRUS; PREVALENCE; SEROPREVALENCE; BLOOD; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; QUESTIONNAIRE; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; VIROLOGY; VIRUS INFECTION;

PARVOVIRUS;

ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; INFANT; LOGISTIC MODELS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PARVOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; PARVOVIRUS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RURAL POPULATION; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES;

EID: 34848888017     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2007.77.354     Document Type: Article

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