Increased mortality rate associated with chikungunya epidemic, Ahmedabad, India

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 412-415

  Mavalankar, Dileep ^a   Shastri, Priya ^a   Bandyopadhyay, Tathagata ^a   Parmar, Jeram ^a   Ramani, Karaikurichi V ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT   (India)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHIKUNGUNYA ALPHAVIRUS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CONTROL; EPIDEMIC; FATALITY; FEVER; HUMAN; INDIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; VIRUS INFECTION;

EID: 41349109780     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1403.070720     Document Type: Article

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