Gore's fever and Dante's Inferno: Chikungunya reaches Ravenna

FASEB Journal

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 635-637

  Weissmann, Gerald ^a  

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Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C3A; DIFLUBENZURON; LARVICIDAL AGENT; PERMETHRIN; PESTICIDE; VIRUS VECTOR;

AEDES AEGYPTI; AEDES ALBOPICTUS; AFRICA; ARBOVIRUS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BATTLE INJURY; CHIKUNGUNYA ALPHAVIRUS; CHIKUNGUNYA FEVER; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DISINFECTION; EDITORIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; EPIDEMIC; EUROPE; FATALITY; FEVER; GEOGRAPHY; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFLAMMATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS MUTANT; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

AEDES; ALPHAVIRUS INFECTIONS; ANIMALS; CHIKUNGUNYA VIRUS; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HUMANS; INSECT CONTROL; ITALY; MUTATION;

EID: 40449124917     PISSN: 08926638     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1096/fj.08-0301ufm     Document Type: Editorial

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