Hantavirus outbreak, Germany, 2007

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 850-852

  Hofmann, Jörg ^a   Meisel, Helga ^a   Klempa, Boris ^a   Vesenbeckh, Silvan M ^a   Beck, Robert ^b   Michel, Detlef ^c   Schmidt Chanasit, Jonas ^d,h   Ulrich, Rainer G ^e   Grund, Sebastian ^f   Enders, Gisela ^g   Kruger, Detlev H ^a,i  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^d GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e Institute for Novel and Emerging Infectious Diseases   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^g Institute of Virology Infectology and Epidemiology   (Germany)

^h BERNHARD NOCHT INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

ⁱ HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPIDEMIC; GENE SEQUENCE; GERMANY; HANTAVIRUS; HUMAN; LETTER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PUUMALA VIRUS; RNA VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS GENE;

EID: 45249112570     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1405.071533     Document Type: Letter

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