Serological evidence of arboviral infection and self-reported febrile illness among U.S. troops deployed to Al Asad, Iraq

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 136, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 665-669

  Riddle, M S ^a,b,f   Althoff, J M ^a   Earhart, K ^c   Monteville, M R ^c   Yingst, S L ^c   Mohareb, E W ^c   Putnam, S D ^d   Sanders, J W ^e  

^a Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center   (United States)

^b US Naval Medical Research Unit No 3 Egypt   (Egypt)

^c NAMRU 3   (Egypt)

^d US Naval Medical Research Unit No 2 Jakarta   (Indonesia)

^e WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f NAVAL MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL CRAMP; ADULT; ARBOVIRUS; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CHILL; CONJUNCTIVA DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DIARRHEA; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FEVER; HEADACHE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; IRAQ; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MILITARY DEPLOYMENT; MYALGIA; NAUSEA; NIGHT SWEAT; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; OPHTHALMOPLEGIA; PHARYNGITIS; RASH; RHINORRHEA; SCLERA DISEASE; SELF REPORT; SEROCONVERSION; SERODIAGNOSIS; SKIN ULCER; SOLDIER; VIRUS INFECTION; VOMITING;

ADULT; ARBOVIRUS INFECTIONS; ARBOVIRUSES; BLOOD; FEMALE; FEVER OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN; HUMANS; IRAQ; MALE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 41549126713     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268807009016     Document Type: Article

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