Seroepidemiological study on hantavirus infections in India

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 102, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 70-74

  Chandy, Sara ^a   Yoshimatsu, Kumiko ^b   Ulrich, Rainer G ^c   Mertens, Marc ^c   Okumura, Megumi ^b   Rajendran, P ^d   John, George T ^a   Balraj, Vinohar ^a   Muliyil, Jayaprakash ^a   Mammen, Joy ^a   Abraham, Priya ^a   Arikawa, Jiro ^b   Sridharan, Gopalan ^a  

^a CHRISTIAN MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS   (India)

Author keywords

Emerging pathogens; Hantavirus; India; Seroepidemiology; Serologic tests; Zoonoses

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; NUCLEOCAPSID PROTEIN; VIRUS ANTIGEN;

ADULT; ANIMAL TRAPPING; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HANTAVIRUS; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; INDIA; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK FACTOR; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGY; SEROPREVALENCE; VIRUS INFECTION; WESTERN BLOTTING; ZOONOSIS;

ADULT; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; HANTAVIRUS; HANTAVIRUS INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEROLOGIC TESTS;

HANTAAN VIRUS; HANTAVIRUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 36549002613     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trstmh.2007.09.016     Document Type: Article

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