Hantaviruses: Underestimated respiratory viruses?

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 477-479

  Clement, Jan ^a,d   Maes, Piet ^a   Ducoffre, Geneviève ^b   Van Loock, Frank ^c   Van Ranst, Marc ^a  

^a REGA INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Belgium)

^b SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Belgium)

^c EUROPEAN COMMISSION   (Belgium)

^d Laboratory of Clincal and Epidemiology Virology   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HANTAVIRUS VACCINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS VACCINE;

AVIAN INFLUENZA; BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA; CRUSH SYNDROME; HANTAVIRUS; HANTAVIRUS PULMONARY SYNDROME; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; INFLUENZA; LETTER; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUUMALA VIRUS; RESPIRATORY VIRUS; RODENT; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; SOLDIER; TEMPERATURE; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS SURVIVAL; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ANIMALS; ARVICOLINAE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; HANTAVIRUS; HANTAVIRUS INFECTIONS; HUMANS; ZOONOSES;

EID: 39349092768     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/524896     Document Type: Letter

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