Hepatitis E virus infection in Thai troops deployed with U.N. peacekeeping forces

Military Medicine

Volumn 172, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1217-1219

  Myint, Khin Saw Aye ^a   Duripunt, Pochaman ^a   Mammen Jr , Mammen P ^a   Sirisopana, Narongrid ^a   Rodkvamtook, Wuttikon ^a   Gibbons, Robert V ^a  

^a ARMED FORCES RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Thailand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTIBODY TITER; ARMY; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; SEROCONVERSION; THAILAND; UNITED NATIONS;

EID: 36148957804     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED.172.11.1217     Document Type: Article

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